«Свет их все еще идет к нам, все еще сияет нам»: мотив самопожертвования в повести В.П. Астафьева «Звездопад»

Abstract

The aim of the study is to establish the compositional and ideological function of the motive of self-sacrifice in V.P. Astafyev’s novel “Starfall”, in some other works of his; to characterize symbolic images; to reveal the genesis of images of meaningful self-sacrifice, images of a star and starfall; to determin compositional features, plot construction; to analyze the specifics of cinematic interpretation of key episodes; to compare the leading motive of the story with the motive structure of the works of the Russian soviet literature of 1940–1960s. The authors prove motivational and figurative consonance of Astafiev’s short novel with the Russian folklore works, Russian classic literature, and works of the Russian literature of the 1940s and 1960s. The analysis of the literary context of the story is carried out, the active development of the dominant motive in the cinematic version of the “Starfall” is established. It was proved that the originality of the story’s ideology is given by the symbolic content and tragic sound of a number of images (the main character, star, starfall). The composition is based on the opposition of the themes of war and love (this compositional technique, due to its prevalence, is perceived as a “common place” by Russian soviet writers about the Great Patriotic War), on the contrast between the tragic and the comic.