"Sunday letters" by V.S. Solovyov in the perspective of the concept of speech genres by M.M. Bakhtin

The article analyzes the publicist work of the famous Russian philosopher V. S. Solovyov "Sunday Letters", which is rarely studied in the scientific literature, created in the last years of his life. Based on the main provisions of the concept of speech genres by M. M. Bakhtin, the author examines the context of the speech act organized by Solovyov, the publicist, the artistic and polemical components of the text, the nature of the use of "someone else's word" in the dialogue with the reader. The communicative perspective of research is quite rare in Solovyov studies. Combining the possibilities of literature studies and linguistics allowed us to see the literature material from a fundamentally new point of view and draw the following conclusions. Starting the publication of a series of his works in the newspaper " Rus’ ", Solovyov initiates a serious ongoing conversation with his compatriots about topical issues facing Russian society. The choice of the subject of speech, the genre form of public speech, the peculiarities of the presentation of the material were influenced by both the participants of the dialogue, the specifics of the journalistic sphere of communication, and the specific situation of speech communication, the epoch. Solovyov's apocalyptic premonitions led him to the idea of rallying fellow citizens on the eve of the coming universal upheavals, so in the "Sunday Letters" he did not so much polemize and insist on his vision of the truth, as he explained, convinced, pointed to important ideological sources (Bible, Russian classical poetry) that could help correct positions, carefully analyzed the response voices of readers-interlocutors. The large volume of "someone else's word" within the framework of the Solovyov publicist cycle confirms the orientation of its author to an open and equal dialogue with contemporaries.