REFLECTIONS ON ESSENCE OF LIFE AND DEATH IN WORKS BY G. GASDANOV AND A. FADEEV

Abstract

The search for moral guidelines by characters
of novels Alexander Wolfs Ghost by G.Gazdanov
and Defeat by A.Fadeev is analyzed in the article, as
well as authors methodology to disclose a psychology
of the characters. The reference to L.Andreevs story
Yeliazar proves that Andreevs myth regarding the
influence of the beyond on human personality echoes
distinctly in writings created in the first half of the 20th
century. The influence of the other world creates the energy
of destruction in a human soul that destroys people
around it. The destruction of personality is closely associated
with its brutalization, which will be eventually
depicted in Fadeevs and Gazdanovs writings devoted
to Civil war. Trying to grasp the meaning of the tragic
reality they had to witness, the two authors (each in his
own way) define the spiritual and ideological bases of
human existence.