СТАРЕЦ-МОНАХ-ЧУДОТВОРЕЦ КАК ГЕРОЙ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ РУССКОЙ ПРОЗЫ
THE ELDER-MONK-MIRACLE MAN AS A HERO OF MODERN RUSSIAN PROSE

Summary/Abstract: This article presents selected literary works by writers of contemporary Russian literature, whose hero is an elder monk or miracle man. In their works, writers such as Lyudmila Petryshevskaya, Evgeniy Vodolazkin, Tikhon Shevkunov and Maya Kucherskaya refer to the genres of religious literature such as patericon, hagiography, and the apothegm. The author’s interest in the character, directly referring to the tradition of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and elder Zosima, from the novel The Brothers Karamazov, is an expression of longing for national values related to the spiritual culture of Russian Orthodoxy and a reflection of the dialogue between religious and secular literature that is taking place today.

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