The depiction of war in the work of Victor Astafyev (based on the novel The Cursed and the Slain) Cover Image

Изображение войны в творчестве Виктора Астафьева (на материале романа "Прокляты и убиты")
The depiction of war in the work of Victor Astafyev (based on the novel The Cursed and the Slain)

Author(s): Hanna Paulouskaja
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Česká asociace slavistů
Keywords: Viktor Astafyev; war; the literature of war; Great Patriotic War; novel The Cursed and the Slain

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the study of the concept of war in Victor Astafyev's novel The Cursed and the Slain and to the revealing author's attitude to this phenomenon, expressed in repetitive images and ideas, discovering the specifics of the composition artistic world in the context of the writer's work. Various aspects of the depiction of war based on the material of the novel The Cursed and the Slain are analyzed. As a result, a conclusion was drawn about the features of Astafyev's late prose and the image of war in his novel.

  • Issue Year: XV/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 55-66
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Russian
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