Artistic and Intentional Signs of Confessions and Sermons in V.P. Astafyev’s Story <i>Drop</i> from the book <i>Queen Fish</i>
The article is devoted to the study of the features of the author's intention in the story Drop by V.P. Astafyev from the book Queen Fish . The content of the story has been considered by researchers in the aspect of social and moral problems of our time. One of them is environmental. It became very important in the 1970s. Astafyev includes into the traditional realistic narrative a lyrical and philosophical component that has features of religious genres-sermons, confessions. Despite all the ambiguity of academic judgments about the writer's religious search, it is obvious that the story Drop can reveal genre and artistic features that indicate well-defined psychological, religious and philosophical attitudes of the author, which makes up the relevance and novelty of the proposed research. The motive of gratitude and joyous acceptance of life is one of the dominant ones in the Christian worldview, and there is a proof of the same philosophical and religious idea of the author in this text. Elements of the confessional-preachy narrative appear as the «memory of the genre», as a slant of Astafyev's creative consciousness to get insight into the laws of life existence.