OPPOSITION OF IDEAS, CHARACTERS AND FATES OF MEN AND WOMEN IN M. M. PRISHVIN’S «THE TALE OF OUR TIME» (1944)
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-7278-2023-1-8-18
Abstract
Aim. Prishvin’s military story, which is becoming increasingly topical in the 21st century, is interpreted.
Methodology. The paper provides a short list of contemporary researchers of Prishvin, who study his connections with Russian and European philosophy. The narrative structure of M. M. Prishvin’s work of 1944 is analyzed; the relationship between the narrator, characters and the author in the general artistic space is commented; and some overlaps between the work and the Writer’s Diary for 1942–1943 arerevealed. Diary entries about the tragic present, preceding the work on the story (to clarify the historical and biographical context), are compared with some fragments and plot links of «The Tale of Our Time». Not only the author’s reflections, which influenced the content of the work, but also those statements of the writer, in which historical, moral and ethical perspectives are predicted, which have become «our time» for readers of the new millennium, are discussed.
Results. A conclusion is made that Prishvin’s analysis of the ideas that accompany human history fromthe Old Testament times to Christianity and socialism is present in his story as a way of resisting evil.In his Diary, Prishvin sought to discover and understand both the causes of heroism and the prospectsfor future well-being, which he regarded as a great danger for compatriots who had lost faith in God(essentially awaiting the kingdom of the Antichrist).
Research implications. The work contributes to the methodology of literary analysis and the possibility of their use in the practice of teaching philological disciplines.
About the Author
L. F. Alekseeva
Moscow Region State Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Liubov F. Alekseeva – Dr. Sci. (Philological Sciences), Prof., Department of the Russian Literature of the 20th century
ul. Very Voloshinoi 24, Mytishchi 24141014, Moscow Region
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