POETICS OF THE RUSSIAN WORLD BY IVAN SHMELEV
Journal: ПРОБЛЕМЫ ИСТОРИЧЕСКОЙ ПОЭТИКИ
Year: 2023

The article discusses the underlying causes of a new wave of axiological rejection of I. S. Shmelev, which, as the author of the work demonstrates, has a negative attitude towards the image of historical Russia, depicted in the writer’s top works: “Praying Man” and “The Summer of the Lord.” At present,there is a tendency of academic reduction of the religious (Orthodox) dominant idea of the late Shmelev in themodern studies of his work, which is motivated by the correction of “one-sidedness” in