Reflection of the principles of Russian classicism dramaturgy in "lieutenants’ prose"
Man at war is a constant theme of most writers that have being at war. Talha Giniyatullin, Yuri Bondarev, Yevgeny Nosov, Vyacheslav Kondratyev, V. Astafev, B. Vasilev and others created works about the war, ordinary soldiers and commanders who have achieved this victory. The works of these writers belong to the so-called “lieutenants’ prose”, which closely examines a person confronted with the harsh realities of war and managed to oppose them because of their courage and fortitude. The works of “lieutenants’ prose” combines similar heroes the young people caught up in the war almost immediately after school, perceiving and evaluating reality of front-line with the share of youth maximalism. The hypothesis of this study: the main features of the “lieutenants’ prose” are limited time, place, action, and the number of actors that is similar to the principles of Russian classicism drama. We reviewed the works of “lieutenants’ prose”, including military novels by Anatoly Genatulin “Attack”, “Fear”, “The two weeks”, “When the war ends” from the point of view of maximum concentration of action and the rule of “the three unities”. The aim of the article is to analyze works of “lieutenants’ prose”, including the cycle of military novels by Anatoly Genatulin in terms of features of the poetics of these stories as the works written by the principles of Russian classicism dramaturgy.