THE COMPLEX OF MOTIVES OF HELL AND PARADISE IN MODERN RUSSIAN PROSE DEDICATED TO THE LABOUR CAMP THEME (BASED ON NOVELS "THE MONASTERY" BY Z.PRILEPIN AND "ZULEIKHA OPENS HER EYES" BY G. YAKHINA)
The article considers the complex of motives of hell and paradise in two significant works of 2014-2015 - the novel by Z. Prilepin "The Monastery" and the novel by G. Yakhina "Zuleikha opens her eyes." general trends of these novels were revealed in this work. Both novels are devoted to the labour camp theme, which has become very relevant in modern literature of recent decades. The central character is a young person (about 30 years old), who ended up in a labour camp. In both novels are noted the isolation and convention of the world created in it. Z. Prilepin images the Solovetsky special-purpose camp very contradictory as a border place, incorporating monastery motifs and the traditional image of the camp like "hell on earth". G. Yakhina makes a utopian "paradise", where the heroine take a peace and became person. In novel Goryainov's way was started in camp's conditions, but Zuleikha had a long way from dispossession, to survival in Taiga. Despite the fact that both go through an important stage of personality formation, we can note a significant difference in the dynamics of these images and their ending. In the "Monastery" Artem is transformed, because he finds God inside himself (in the scene of escape from the camp). In the novel "Zuleikha opens her eyes," the heroine makes it, when she hided her life from the all-seeing Allah and overcomed her fear of pagan spirits. After that she was able to find herself, her strength and her freedom, not giving up God, but finding him inside herself.