The Phenomenon of Author’s Genre Definition in the Work of Playwright Nikolai Terentyev

The paper considers the artistic features and genre originality of Nikolai Terentyev’s dramaturgy, which took an active part in updating the genre paradigm of Chuvash drama in the second half of the twentieth century. The uniqueness of N. Terentyev’s artistic world in his work is reflected in his search for new genre forms. Genre uncertainty, heterogeneous genre features in one work make it necessary to consider the problem of the genre nature of the writer’s plays and talk about their inherent intraspecific syncretism, which first of all manifested itself in the author’s genre definitions. Their analysis in the work of N. Terentyev showed that most often they are in the position of a subtitle and, along with other elements, are part of the work. Their formation takes place within the framework of certain artistic tasks and under the influence of various genre processes: synthesis of genres, reinterpretation of traditional ones, their transformation, etc.