Specificity of author’s comprehension of the Great Patriotic War in the prose of P.F. Aleshkin

INTRODUCTION. The comprehension of the events of the Great Patriotic War by the modern writer P.F. Alyoshkin is characterised by specific features. The author, who constantly turns to the depiction of the events of Russian history, has devoted only one work to the Great Patriotic War. The aim of the study is to identify the artistic features of P.F. Alyoshkin's screenplay ‘The war will begin at dawn’ and to consider their role in creating historically accurate events in the text. The relevance of addressing this scientific problem lies in the fact that at present there is an active study of the modern literary process and determining the place of works of historical genre in it.

MATERIALS AND METHODS. The materials of the study were P.F. Alyoshkin's screenplay ‘The War Will Begin at Dawn’ and I.M. Shevtsov's novel ‘The Seed of the Coming’. The methodological basis of the research consists of hermeneutic, historical-cultural and structural-poetic methods of analysis.

RESEARCH RESULTS. It is revealed that P.F. Aleshkin created the atmosphere of pre-war everyday life in the screenplay by including in the text a lot of documentary information, mentioning real historical personalities. It is established that the writer's psychologism is conditioned by the theme and problematics of the work. It is determined that the author embodied the features of the Russian national character in the characters.

CONCLUSION. Practical significance consists in the possibility of using the obtained materials in the practice of university and school teaching of modern Russian literature.