Eschatological plot in the work of I. Masodov

INTRODUCTION. The research is devoted to the study of the eschatological plot in the works of I. Masodov. The goal of the study is to determine the specifics of eschatological imagery and those mechanisms that contribute to the transformation of familiar plots within the framework of the analyzed works.

MATERIALS AND METHODS. The material of the study is I. Masodov’s trilogy “The Darkness of Your Eyes” (2001), which includes the novels “The Darkness of Your Eyes”, “The Warmth of Your Hands”, “The Sweetness of Your Tender Lips”. The study is based on historical-cultural, mythopoetic, structural, motive methods of analysis.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. It is established that I. Masodov constructs a story that, using “Soviet” plots and images, shows the situation of apocalypse, “barren land” or the movement towards this situation. The protagonist in each of the novels is a girl who, while actualising the genre aspect of the work, simultaneously actualises the images of an innocent victim, an exterminating angel and, in the case of “The Darkness of Your Eyes”, a knight in search of the Holy Grail. . The world here exists according to the laws of violence, actualizes the motifs of death, all key images here are inverted, transgressed, spaces appear as necro-spaces. Therefore, all the actions of the heroine avenging the viciousness of the world are connected with the motives of death and destruction.

CONCLUSION. I. Masodov’s technique of inverting the familiar image helps him to construct plots that focus on the process of disintegration, destruction, and extinction. The eschatological plot in the writer's trilogy finds an emphatically genre embodiment and at the same time focuses attention on the concept of sin and retribution.