The “camp prose” as a stage of a new literature type formation

The article is devoted to the origins of literature, developed in the beginning of the 21st century. According to the author, in “camp prose” the opposition of “presence / absence of extraliterary function” is neutralized, but complex genres are developed. A variety of author's emotional types, contrast and oxymoron techniques corresponded with an extraliterary and artistic task. The article demonstrates that writers distinguish poetic reminiscence, appeal to the ancient art forms (“cave paintings”, chronicle), the originality of artistic time. At the same time they declare their duty to act as witnesses, indicate the events, names, places, mailing text. The result of the study is a conclusion that the ‘camp prose' served as one of the sources for the hagiographies of the new Russian martyrs and confessors.