A. Pushkin's Artistic Worldview in the Stories "The Compromise" and "Pushkin Hills" by S.D. Dovlatov

The study aims to identify typological similarities between the poetics of S. D. Dovlatov’s prose (based on the example of stories ‘The Compromise’ and ‘Pushkin Hills’) and A. Pushkin’s artistic worldview in the 1830s in terms of writers’ common mindset to accept reality. In S. Dovlatov’s artistic worldview Pushkin’s personality functions as a model for self-identification. Repeating the motifs referring to Pushkin’s life in ‘Pushkin Hills’, Dovlatov puts his autobiographical hero in ‘The Compromise’ into the similar life crisis situation which tests his ability to face the difficulties of the circumstances he is in. This aspect is considered to be a starting point for convergence of both writers’ worldviews. The study examines the following typological similarities between the poetics of ‘The Compromise’ by Dovlatov and Pushkin’s ‘The Tales of Belkin’: correlations between the tragic and the comic, the lifelike and the theatrical, carnivalization and the nature of irony. The research also considers the changes in the image of space and characters of the story ‘Pushkin Hills’ (from satirical to to life-accepting point of view) and the features of harmonious perception of the world in hero’s worldview, which are close to the ones of Pushkin.