The Theme of Death in the Works of I. S. Shmelev

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Abstract

The main purpose of the study is to identify the author's vision and features of the artistic depiction of death in the work of Ivan Sergeevich Shmelev. The work uses systematic, comparative historical methods and the method of philological analysis. To achieve this goal, the works of I.S. Shmelev are analyzed, in which the theme of death occurs, in particular, the novels «Love Story», «Summer of the Lord», «Heavenly Paths», the novellas «Pilgrimage», «Rosstani», the epic novel «The Sun ofthe Dead» and others. The most important results of the study: in general, the author under study proceeds from the basic dogmas of Orthodoxy, as well as the Sacred Tradition of the Orthodox Church, while his author’s vision and features of the artistic depiction of death are multicomponent. I.S. Shmelev approaches the artistic understanding of the problem of death in a multifaceted and versatile way, which in itself creates a problem that requires the turn of a comprehensive study. Therefore, within the general theme of death, it is necessary to identify several subtopics (motives), the study of which will be devoted to further articles in this series.