Genre varieties of literary portrait in the publicism of Fedor Abramov

Abstract

In the article the manner of writing of Fedor Abramov as a publicist is analyzed in the creation of a
literary portrait. In the course of the research it cleared out that the writer in his creative work touched upon almost
every genre variety: obituary, an aniversary article, a proper literary portrait, and the critical biographical essay.
Creating the portrait of famous persons, the author takes the places of the critic and the writer at once. In the article
the creation aim finds its realization - to defermine an artistic style, which is applied by Fedor Abramov in the genre
of the literary portrait. It combines the true-to-life image of the objective world, the desire of the penetration into the
depth of the inner world of a person and the attemp to understand each fate within the unchained connection with
the life of his time.
The same methods are used by Feodor Abramov in all cases, when he creates the image of his character.