Humanities & Social Sciences 5 (2016 9) 1129-1139 ~ ~ ~ УДК 82.09 Traditionalists vs Village Prose Writers: Phenomenology of a Literary Phenomenon Natalia S. Tsvetova* St. Petersburg State University 26 1st line, St. Petersburg, 199053, Russia Received 04.02.2016, received in revised form 11.03.2016, accepted 09.04.2016 The article is devoted to the “village prose”, one of the most popular and signifi cant phenomenon of the Russian literature in the second half of the XX century. <...> Phenomenal nature of the “village prose” is analyzed in its correlation with the “traditional” prose caused by a deep natural orientation of the national literary tradition but not by some teaching. <...> This is precisely why the theoretical-and-literary concept of the “traditionalist” prose is beyond the discourse of the author’s interest, the concept correlating with the village prose writers’ literary text only at multiple strained interpretations and reserves. <...> It indicates the perception of the “village prose” by the contemporaries, professional critics, literary theorists and ordinary readers. <...> The article also reveals the “village prose” characteristics, which initiate thinking about a real historical-literary status of this phenomenon. <...> The birth of the Russian traditional prose in the second half of the twentieth century is a unique event in many ways. <...> Therefore, it caused a strong scientifi c refl ection, which was fi xed with two terms at the beginning of a new century, the terms being the “traditional prose” and the “traditionalist prose” (L.V. Sokolova, N.V. Kovtun, et al.). <...> Accordingly, the “traditional” literature is on traditions, evoked and functioning under the infl uence of tradition, lit with the tradition (refer to many modern explanatory dictionaries, including the most popular ones by T.F. Efremova and A.N. Tikhonov). “Traditionalist” is a defi nition corresponding to the noun “traditionalism”. <...> Traditionalist means ‘peculiar to traditionalism, characteristic of it’. literature based Natalia S. Tsvetova. <...> That is why, from our point of view, the “military”, “city” prose cannot refer to the “traditionalist” literary paradigm of the second half of the XX century, as their artistic philosophy was formed in a live, natural interaction with the literary tradition that is still almost not refl exed upon. <...> It is enough to refer to F.A. Abramov’s <...>