Keyword: «contemporary russian prose»

The article touches upon the novel «My Genius, My Angel, My Friend» (2013) by A. P. Rogov. An attmept of analysing the novel from the point of view of spiritual realism is taken for the first time ever. The author concludes that the idealization of the poet-instructor's character is brought to the forefront in the novel. His unique poetic talent is harmonically combined with the keen morality that meets the Christian ideals. The author assumes that a new genre of «ode in spiritual realism prose» appeared within the main genre of artistic biography.

The article analyses motif of kindness in the story «Art of living» by L. Ulitskaya, defines its role in the image system, points out bearers of motives, moral, esthetic characteristics of the writer’s stories and reviews the origin of the question.