Model career in the literature of socialist realism

GA ČR 405/09/P062 „Idea ,nového člověka´ v ruské literatuře 20. a počátku 30. let 20. století“The article asks questions: 1) Why is the biographical character too intensely accentuated in literature of socialist realism? 2) Does a new “biographic” paradigm arise at the beginning of the 30s of the 20th century? 3) What are the basic models of life´s career of protagonists of socialist realism? 4) Are biographical character and interest in a Man true? The authoress comes to the conclusion that poetics of committed literature at the beginning of the 30s changes. Literary canon turns away from adoration of the collective and concentrates on the description of life´s careers of real, individual people, thereby official culture declares its “new humanity”. In principle, we distinguish two models of life´s career. They are similar to hagiographic traditional patterns: to a model of inherent sainthood and to a model of correction of a wrongdoer. Pictures of standardized and reformed protagonists “from the common people” are gradually replaced by a progressive hero of extraordinary character. However we can consider the biographical character of the art of socialist realism to be false. Everything leads to standardization, imitation, expulsion of identity, and uniqueness of life´s career