Form and functions of the quasidocumentary in Russian literature of the XX-XXI centuries
The article tells about an increase of readers' interest towards to non-fiction. It is emphasized that along with the typical documentary genres works in which there is quasidocumentary, suggesting a kind of game with the papers as well as free creative guessing. The latter leads to filling the actual gaps, to "completing" the chain of behavioral motives as artistic "theory of probability" works. In addition, writers often have to act as interviewers, making the conversations with their contemporaries historical and literary documents. The article dwells upon several genre types of such quasidocumentary literature (novel-memoirs, archival novel, novel with the element of alternative history).