The Material World in the Dramatic Reception of V. S. Rozov

The dramaturgy of the Soviet period has been sufficiently studied both from the point of view of the specifics of the artistic system and in terms of its ideological and thematic content. The work of V. S. Rozov, who updated the traditional genre of Russian realistic psychological drama, reflects the main problems of the contemporary era of the author and his person, who is in the dialectical process of searching for his own moral principles and individual “truth.” Drama and poetry are discovered in everyday life, and the everyday life of human existence is understood as an integral component of its existence. Everyday life in Rozov’s drama is not an end in itself, but the soil on which the poetry of life grows; it acquires objective and material contours, becomes a tuning fork or a test for all the characters ― those who choose the comfort of bourgeois life or who resolutely rebel against acquisitiveness and the accumulation of things. In the plays “Good Hour!”, “In Search of Joy”, “The Wood Grouse’s Nest”, the characters, coming into conflict with public consciousness, strive to isolate themselves from everyday well-being and the dominance of “materialism”. The purpose of this article is to study the forms and content of rejection of the material world in the dramatic reception of V. S. Rozov. Results. Materialism as the dominance of material goods, philistinism in a crushing world is not organically accepted by Rozov’s young heroes, who reject them with all their nature and consciousness

Art · Literature · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies