FUNCTIONS OF DIARY STORYTELLING IN CREATIVITY YOUNG ÉMIGRÉ WRITERS OF THE FIRST WAVE
The works of Ek. Bakunina, A. Ageev, N. Berberova, G. Kuznetsova, united by the concept of a “human document”; It is noted that the use of diary narratives by “emigrant children” in various aesthetic functions leads to controversy about the tasks of literature in emigration: it testifies to the eternal struggle of the document with fiction in literature and reveals the disagreement of realism and modernism, conserving national culture in emigration, with the avant-garde.