The aim of my paper is to discuss issues related to the phenomenon of stereotyping the literary hero in the novel by A. Platonov "Chevengur ", based on the W. Lippmann’s definition, which captures the stereotype as a stabilized social image, schematizing and evaluating reality. The emphasis on the generalizing features, the occurrence of the collective hero and schematization were characteristic phenomena of the Russian Soviet literature of the 1920s, but their functions were diverse. In the paper, the example of literary character - Kopionkin is examined with regard to the stereotypical features, against the background of the prose work "The Naked Year" by B. Pilnyak and of "The Iron Flood" by A. Serafimovich and "Chapayev” by D. Furmanov - the proletarian writers.

Stereotypization was a device that shaped the hero's identity in the context of the familiar behavior pattern - the duplication of the stereotype. In view of this, one can notice the otherness of the work Platonov, who, using stereotyping, simultaneously created a new, original, authorial method of presenting the world in literature.