Image of monk in modern small genres prose

Abstract

The author of the article analyses short stories by contemporary writers: an archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), priests Vladimir Chugunov, Yaroslav Shipov, an archpriest Savva Mihalevich, which tell about a difficult path of monastic service. The peculiarities of each author's poetic style and narration are sorted out in the selected works. Also some parallels between these authors and writers of the 19th century are outlined. There author of the article mentions the original artistic results due to which the writers immerse readers in thoughts about deep philosophical problems of religion and Christian life.