I. S. Shmelev's novelistic: problems of typology and evolution

Discusses the typological features of the genre of the story in the works of one of the largest Russian writers of the 20th century - I. S. Shmelev in the context of the General characteristics of the genre in the early twentieth century. The author emphasizes the realistic nature of Shmelev’s story, which experienced a slight influence of domestic modernism, in particular impressionism and expressionism. The ideas, figurative system, poetics of the genre in the works of the writer, including the poetics of the tale are studied. The evolution of the genre is briefly traced, some stories are analyzed in the light of literary criticism of I. A. Ilyin.