Other Shukshin: notes on contemporary studies of Shukshin's works

The article is devoted to the review of monographs on the work of V.M. Shukshin, published over the past five years. Researchers of the creative heritage of the writer and film director managed to offer new prospects in the study of his works. In the monograph by D.V. Maryin, “The non-artistic work of V.M. Shukshin,” for the first time, letters, documentary autobiographies, draft notes, and social and political essays of the writer were systematically studied. The scientific significance of the research by Altai philologists “Semiotics of the artistic space of V.M. Shukshin” and “Geopoetics of V.M. Shukshin” consists in attempts to describe a holistic model of the writer’s artistic world. A book by I.V. Shestakova, “The artistic and visual principles of cinema by V.M. Shukshin,” is distinguished by a synthetic approach to Shukshin’s creativity. According to the author of this work, Shukshin’s film making is a single space for the interaction of literary, pictorial, and musical forms of arts. In addition to film critics, historians, philosophers and sociologists actively joined in the work on Shukshin’s works. The textbook by Prof. S.I. Grigoriev, (Post-Doctoral degree in Sociology) has run through several editions. S.V. Tsyb, Barnaul historian, had published his book entitled “V.M. Shukshin and historical time” by the 90th anniversary of Shukshin. The uncertainty of theoretical attitudes led to the fact that the concept of Shukshin creativity proposed by the Riga literary critic P.S. Glushakov in the book “Shukshin and others”, completely built on subjective and unreasonable associations, turned out to be extremely unsuccessful.