The Vital Mission of Creative Work in Contemporary Authors’ Ego-Narratives

This article examines literary interviews of Ural authors A. Salnikov and E. Simonova. The narrative analysis the interview makes it possible to identify how writer defines writer’s mission, draw a conclusion about strategies public self-perception, its emotional dominants, aspects understanding legitimacy writing in current process. author has metatextual character, which is result reconstruction recurring (repetitive) motifs are personally (emotionally) or supra-personally (culturally, regionally, nationally) conditioned. “history authorship” enclosed frame (the dialogue structure interview, non-free speaking). Speech genres various types (“memory”, “anecdote”, etc.) freely circulate inside interview. writers’ interpreted as part “big story” authorship told by participants for wide range interested persons. comparative selected relates general moments creative fate writers (participants “Nizhny Tagil Renaissance” and, more broadly, life Urals). their depends on fact “second debut” puts Simonova situation retrospective introspection. event entering world effectiveness event) understood deviation from natural course things (Salnikov). Simonova’s self-perception speaks return normality, existence creator words. regarding peculiarities Salnikov’s individual self-mythologisation. For Salnikov, marginalisation: mythologises author’s path crossing border between “non-writers” marginal poets. Simonova, ironic casualisation: she deliberately denies poetic insights, giving importance ethical symmetry talent man through development self-depreciation traditional Russian literature etiquette. (widely known among reading different types), depending factors each case but equally significant manifestation space, demonstrates stability conditions accepted themselves throughout path, way establish foundations personal vitality.