Ego-texts: levels of privacy in their interaction with public discourses (on material of several personal diaries from Soviet epoch)

In this article, the diary is seen as a kind of literary writing being carried out under the major narrative forms (Novel, Tragedy, Comedy, Satire - Hayden White). In one diary can coexist episodes addressed the different circles of the «ideal readers». These categories of potential readers correspond to the different levels of intimacy on which narration is conducted. The categories of readers and levels of privacy vary in the set of topics, intertextual links and discourses used. The author of the article illustrates her reflections on the examples of several personal diaries of 1960-th - the beginning of the 1980s., both published and unpublished to date.