The Motive of a Person’s Self-destruction in V. Rasputin’s Stories of the 1990-2000s
The motive of a person’s self-destruction is analyzed in the article on the material of V. Rasputin’s late short stories. These works show the signs of the anthropological crisis which is perceived by the writer not just as a threat of a distant future but as a danger hanging over humankind in the here and now.