WORK OF PERSON’S SOUL AS PRESERVATION OF FAMILY’S HISTORICAL MEMORY IN V. SHAROV’S NOVELS

Abstract

The paper addresses the example of pseudo-historical postmodern novels by the modern writer V. Sharov to consider the intellectual and spiritual personality process of collecting and preserving evidence and documents the existence of a particular family in the infinite chaotic movement of Russian history. What the analysis of the novels’ poetics discovers in the Sharov’s artistic world picture is the development of the motive of a person's gaining memory of the past as the most important spiritual momentum of the movement of history.

Keywords

• work
• motive of memory
• postmodernism
• pseudohistory
• v. sharov