The Doppelgänger Problem in V. Shukshin’s Stories (the Aspect of Russian Hermeneutics)
The doppelgänger problem in the aspect of Russian hermeneutics of Vardan Hayrapetyan and his main category of Otherness are analyzed in the article. In order to reconstruct the concept of the doppelgänger in Shukshin’s stories, three types the Russian writer attitude to Otherness (rus. инакость ) are investigated: self (rus. самость), the other (rus. другость), the alien (rus. чужесть). These categories in Hayrapetyan's hermeneutics are connected with Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov. Shukshin creates a certain ideological and esthetic model with each of the writers mentioned above: representation, the fight against tyranny and egocentrism. Nabokov's type of the personality analyzed in article is manifested in the motives of childhood and images of a child, in a particular egocentric infant, immersed in solipsism without sharing the values of another. A bright embodiment of such an infant is the character and a collision of the story Suraz. Being unique, he is impenetrable for another and at the same time is similar to someone, creating doppelgänger and reflections. The image layer which is poorly reflected in interpretations is under analysis as well: the image of a snake and the Ouroboros, egocentrism and infantilism of characters, the motive of impermeability for Another.