Жилое пространство и менталитет индивида в русской прозе ХХ – ХХI веков

Abstract

The article discusses the relationship between characters` living conditions and their personality traits. In most of the analysed stories (by M. Zoshchenko," Moscow Street" by B. Yampolsky, stories by V. Makanin, R. Senchin and others) the authors emphasise a devastating impact of a place of living, such as a council flat in the Soviet version, a worker class hostel or a bunkhouse, on personality development. A lack of space did not facilitate the upbringing of a `new` Soviet man. The article also emphasises that some Russian literary works ("The Ship of Widows" by I. Grekova, The Time of Women by E. Chizhova) show good neighbour relations in post-war council flats.