The camp theme in post-war prose of the Russian abroad (S. Maksimov and G. Andreev)

The works of G. Andreev and S. Maksimov is largely devoted to the understanding of personal camp experience. They strive to reflect political processes and their influence on the destinies of the characters; their focus is on a person who finds himself in critical conditions created by the state and resists them. Their works are characterized by a special personal emotional coloring and tragedy in depicting the fate of a prisoner. These features allow us to see significant similarities with the texts of the “camp prose” movement. The purpose of this study is to identify common typological features of prose about the camps of the second wave of emigration and the “camp prose” of the metropolis of the 1950s-1980s, which allows us to talk about the belonging of S. Maksimov and G. Andreev to this direction. The works are written from the perspective of a narrator who has autobiographical features, and behind the image of the internal struggle of the intellectual hero lies a generalized image of an entire generation of people forced to resist the repressive apparatus. At the same time, S. Maksimov tries to depict the tragic struggle and death of the human soul in this confrontation, while G. Andreev tries to show the Christian acceptance of the trials that came along the life path of the prisoners. The novelty of the study lies in the identification of the typological features of camp prose in the works of the second wave of emigration, including the autobiographical nature of the narrative, as well as the special chronotope of the camp that determines the plots and the depiction of the internal struggle of the heroes. Thus, in the camp prose created by emigrants of the second wave, the “real-historical” and “existential” principles of depicting camp life are implemented, allowing us to talk about significant similarities with the camp prose of A.I. Solzhenitsyn and V.T. Shalamov and the convict prose of F.M. Dostoevsky.