PUBLICISTIC CYCLE “BROWN PLAGUE” BY V.A. ZAKRUTKIN: THE HISTORY OF CREATING, SENSE DOMINANTS, SPECIFICS OF THE FORM
Abstract
https://doi.org/10.18522/1995-0640-2025-1-209-218
A publicistic work “Brown Plague” by V.A. Zakrutkin was initially performed as an authorized cycle. There were analyzed its certain-historic conditions of creation. While analysing, the main compositive characteristics were defined, its basic intentions, universal and inner-text relations. They are used for narration. The study gives characteristics to the system of transparent images, created by the author to disclosure antihuman core of fascism and approval for inevitable the USSR victory in the Great Patriotic War. Historical and system approaches are used for methodology basis of research, that means considering the appearance of the phenomenon in a certain historical field, mutual relations of the whole units and characteristics of the text. The aim of the research is to identify system components of the work “Brown Plague”, describing its author’s cycle. The object of the analysis became 11 works, comprised in a brochure “Brown Plague”, 4 articles, which had been published before, but closely connected to the cycle.
Key words: Zakrutkin, publicism, “Brown Plague”, author’s cycle, fascism, history of creation, intentionality, architectonics, system of images
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