Commemorative Literary Portrait of V. M. Shukshin

The article focuses on the memorial lyrics about V. M. Shukshin as a way to model his image as a writer, director and actor. The focus is on the poetic obituaries by V. Vysotsky, A. Voznesensky, E. Yevtushenko, R. Rozhdestvensky as precedent texts for the subsequent memorial tradition which developed into a corpus of works by less known poets. The memorial "supertext" on Shukshin includes a regional component associated with the "native place" of the writer, as well as more universal motifs of life and cinema in their contradictory unity, creative method (author “from grassroots”), literary evolution (ancestors and successors). The literary portrait of Shukshin is built on symbolic details: cheekbones, kersey boots, guilder rose, birch, etc. The poets mention the films that are significant in his biography: the prophetic “Kalina Krasnaya”, the fatal “They Fought for the Motherland”, unfilmed “Stepan Razin”. The pragmatic aspect of commemorative practices reveals a negative component: a parasitic self-affirmation in culture through a public commemoration of a departed celebrity.