People and time: Review of the book by S A Tishina “We are Turgenevites”
The purpose of the review is to show the relevance of the Literature of the fact, works created from the memoirs of a representative of the same family. The analysis of the text is based on the anthropocentric approach, the methods of pragmatic, psycholinguistic analysis, which made it possible to determine the author's idea of the work, where S.A. Tishina connects the destinies of different people with historical events in the time stream. The family narrative is the foundation of the narration. The clear structure of the book is due to the chronological presentation of the material. The book by S.A. Tishina, through the prism of the life of her grandfather, father, other family members and the interweaving of the destinies of fellow villagers, presents the story of a whole generation, people who in the XlXth century were serfs of the writer I.S. Turgenev's mother. The descendants of people who saw the writer, who served him, currently preserve the memory of him through local history research, restoration of historical documents, recording of memories. The biggest part of the book contains a story about the village of Turgenevo, the ancestral estate of the writer's father. Many pages are devoted to the school, the life of its first headmaster, teachers, school leavers, about people -the pride of Tula region. The book is valuable for its content: S.A. Tishina places photographs, a lot of documents, offers scenarios of literary compositions that a modern teacher can use. Of undoubted interest are lyrical digressions - poems and stories created by the author in different years. In the non-fiction story by S.A. Tishina, the emotional background is clearly expressed, awakening different feelings in the reader. The author of the book, who received a brilliant philological education, presents an artistic and documentary narrative, where the verbal fabric itself is an object of aesthetics, an example of the beautiful Russian literary language, the preservation of which was taken care of by the author's great countryman, writer I.S. Turgenev.