Comparative method as the principle of the literary-historical concept study of Boborykin>s novels
Comparative method as the principle of the literary-historical concept study of Boborykin>s novels The article is devoted to poorly studied facts of Russian literature history. Such research lacunae include historical and literary concept of P. Boborykin. One of the components of the famous Russian writer's concept was to prove typological unity of French naturalism and Russian «natural school». The interest of Boborykin to naturalism was connected with the desire to prove one-direction motion of Russian and European literary process in their movement to the objective reflection of life development trends. He was convinced that much of word of aesthetic thoughts in Western Europe had been said earlier by Russian writers or coincided in time period. This concerns, first of all, understanding of the «natural school»traditions and especially «physiological sketch» that allows seeing in its aesthetics features that were similar or identical to the French naturalism of 70-80 s. The writer convincingly proved that the ideas of French naturalism lay on the already-prepared base, and contributed to the revival of Russian origin trends in aesthetics and poetics of Russian «natural school»in 40 s. The appearance and existence of naturalistic features are connected not only with and not so much due to the creative initiative of Zola and Goncourt but to the objective logics of socio-historical and literary process common to Russian and French literature.