The motive of native home returning in the prose of Fyodor Abramov and Valentin Rasputin
https://doi.org/10.20310/2587-6953-2022-8-3-571-581
Abstract
In a comparative typological analysis of the works of two classics of rural prose F. Abramov and V. Rasputin, the commonality of the motive of native home returning, associated with the motives for returning home and its restoration, is revealed, which is especially relevant in the context of Russian history and culture of the 20th-21st centuries. We substantiate that the native home image as a parental one, expanded to a metaphor of the native land, native country, the main spiritual value in the prose of both writers, gives the main characters of the works the fullness and meaningfulness of life, return to themselves, authenticity. We conclude that the native home image in the prose of two writers is associated with the image of destroyed, abandoned house or its loss, and with the motive of its acquisition, restoration. The work analyzes the novel by F. Abramov “The House” from the tetralogy “Brothers and Sisters” and the story “Bear Hunt”, as well as the stories by V. Rasputin “Birthday”, “The Hut”, the essay “Down and Upstream”, the story “The Fire”. The artistic image of native home and associated motives of returning home and home returning in the prose of two writers testify to the stability of this figurative-motive complex, the desire to strengthen it in Russian literature in its entirety and ambiguity as a moral support. The analysis is based on the axiological approach of V.E. Khalizeva, V.N. Zakharov’s concepts of ethnopoetics, on T.I. Radomskaya’s works. The study results can be used in school and university teaching of Russian literature history, culturology.
About the Author
V. Y. Ivanova
Irkutsk State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Valentina Y. Ivanova, Candidate of Philology, Candidate of Culturology, Associate Professor of of Contemporary Russian Literature Department of Philology, Foreign Languages and Media Communications Institute
8 Lenin St., Irkutsk 664025
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Ivanova V.Y. The motive of native home returning in the prose of Fyodor Abramov and Valentin Rasputin. Neophilology. 2022;8(3):571-581. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.20310/2587-6953-2022-8-3-571-581
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