Abstract
The paper examines the invariant “plot-forming” conflict that links V. P. Krapivin’s novels “The Boy with a Sword”, “The Bronze Boy” and “The Red Banner of Stubbornness” in the context of value oppositions that define the structure of the system of characters. Scientific originality of the paper lies in taking a methodological approach to the subject of the research: specificity of the conflict is analysed in the aspect of artistic axiology. The study aims to comprehend the author’s axiological intentions defining the system of characters that is invariant for the novels of the “Sails of the «Espada»” trilogy. As a result of the study, the researcher has identified and characterised two modes of consciousness which define the mental value dominants of the main characters of the trilogy, “Krapivin’s boys”, representatives of convergent consciousness, and their regular antagonists, i.e. “bureaucratresses-teacheresses” and functionaries, adherents of the negative pole of authoritarian consciousness.
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