The concept of thaw in V.P. Aksenov\'s novel \"Mysterious passion\"

Student: Abramova Darya

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2024

Nowadays, the "thaw" is one of the fascinating topics for studying the epoch of the 1960s, so the work of many writers and poets, including Aksenov, is becoming increasingly important for understanding the formation of the concept of "thaw". Due to the variety of the Aksenov's texts, it is possible to comprehensively study specific topics that create the concept of "thaw". The purpose of this article is to identify the concept of "thaw" in Aksenov's last novel Mysterious Passion (2009) when compared with works written during the Soviet period of the writer's work - using examples of the stories "The Colleagues" (1959), "A Ticket to the Stars" (1961), " Our Golden Ironburg" (1973), "The Burn" (1975). The research will be conducted with the use of the comparative and intertextual analysis methods.

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