RUSSIAN SHORT STORY WRITING OF THE END OF THE 20 TH CENTURY: MAN’S CONCEPTION AND GENRE

The article deals with the short stories that belong to the writers of natural direction in the modern prose, we analyse such stories as “Zhenskiy razgovor” and “Vek zhivi — vek lubi” by V.G. Rasputin, “Holyushino podvorye” by B.P. Ekimov. Man’s conception and genre are interdependent, which means that an “ancestral” origin is the main aspect of making unified individual man’s existence and a social origin is dominant in portraying a man while revealing waning existence isolated from moral traditions.