This article is devoted to the consideration of O. Vasyakina’s novel “The Steppe” (2022), as well as the search for a new literary category with which to explore the poetics of modern literary texts. In the research context, there is an assumption that the “tools” developed over the years are not suitable for analyzing the latest literature. The author of the article suggests the concept of “non-estrangement” (by analogy with the concept that O. Meerson used to analyze the works of A. Platonov) to consider the specifics of autofictional texts. The poetics of Vasyakina’s texts (poetic and prosaic) are in-creasingly described through the phrase “direct utterance”, implying a fusion of the biographical author and the author’s position in the narrative. Meanwhile, “direct utterance” correlates with a special modality of writing, focused on a sincere word and an actual image of reality with a minimum number of tropes. The “non-estrangement” appearing in literary texts manifests itself in the meta-textual arguments of the authors and heroes about language, writing methods, in specific imagery aimed at deconstructing the literary discourse familiar to the reader.
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Razukhina K.E. Features of non-estrangement in O. Vasyakina’s novel “The Steppe”, Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2022, iss. 2, pp. 13—21.