Humanities & Social Sciences 3 (2017 10) 440-445 ~ ~ ~ УДК 82-7 Contemporary Traditionalist Prose in the Mirror of the Latest Literary Studies (monograph review) and Natalia V. Kovtunb a b Jasmina Vojvodica * University of Zagreb Croatia Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V.P. Astafyev 89 Ada Lebedeva Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660060, Russia Received 14.09.2016, received in revised form 10.10.2016, accepted 10.01.2017 The review presents the recently published monograph “Russian Traditionalism: History, Ideology, Poetics, Literary Reflection” (M., Flinta-Nauka, 2016), dedicated to one of the timeliest and controversial issues of modern literature and culture in general – the issue of genesis and functioning of Russian traditionalism, which origins date back to the so-called “village prose”. <...> The continuity of axiology and ideology, metaphysics and natural philosophy, self-reflection and communicative orientations, utopian projectivity and behavioral patterns are analyzed in the book. <...> The traditionalist type of artistic thinking is revealed in its typological characteristics and individual uniqueness. <...> The forum allowed inviting to the conversation the authors of iconic monographs, textbooks and articles devoted to traditionalism as a key direction of the Russian language and literature of the 20th century as well as the results and prospects of its development (Kovtun, 2015, 2982-2988). <...> For a reason the book was published under the , organized in the city of Krasnoyarsk in © Siberian Federal University. <...> All rights reserved auspices of two influential public organizations – the newly established The Russian Language and * Corresponding author E-mail address: jvojvodi@ffzg.hr; nkovtun@mail.ru – 440 – Jasmina Vojvodic, Natalia V. Kovtun. <...> Contemporary Traditionalist Prose in the Mirror of the Latest Literary Studies… Literature Society, headed by His Holiness Kirill the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, and the Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature of Higher School – the edition reflects the most important challenges facing the national literature and culture at the turn of the 20th centuries. <...> The book is represented by the eminent reviewers and the international editorial board, which includes Doctor of Philology, Professor of Friedrich-Schiller-University Andrea Meyer-Frantz (Germany), Doctor of Philology, Professor of Saitama State University Nonaka Susumu (Japan); Doctor of Philology, Professor Irina Plekhanova (Russia), Doctor of Philology, Professor Natalia Kovtun (Editor-in-Chief, Russia). <...> The traditionalist type of artistic thinking is revealed in the monograph through its <...>