The dialectic interaction of people and nature in the short story Alexander Serafimovich "On the Ice"
This article examines questions related to the story «On the Ice», the first work in the creative biography of Alexander Serafimovich. The author tries new way to explore the story of the writer. Immanent analysis of artistic works combined with an appeal to historical and literary, biographical, cultural, ethnographic facts. The opposition of «people - nature» is important not only in studying the story, but in the context of the early works of the writer, therefore, the study’s author believes the main task is comprehension of the speci- ficity of art the reception of the phenomena of people and nature in the story «On the Ice». The author shows all the ambiguity of philosophical understanding by the writer: of people’s place in the natural space and the influence of nature on the life and death of a person. Analysis of the story opens the possibility of studying not only in the aspect of class struggle, the image of which received close attention from the Soviet literature. The article also deals with the problem of the genesis of early literary creativity of Alexander Serafimovich. Collected literary facts, bearing on the criticism and comparative analysis leads to the conclusion about the connection between the artistic worlds of early creative work of Alexander Serafimovich and the one of Vladimir Korolenko.