EVOLUTION OF THE ARTISTIC IMAGE OF THE BELOVED IN E.D. AIPIN’S PROSE

Abstract

The article analyzes the evolution of the image of the Beloved in the creative heritage of a Khanty writer E.D. Aipin, emphasizes the importance of the role of this image in ideological terms, in the author’s worldview. The focus of this study is on such individual features of the Beloved’s image as aristocracy, grace, mysticism, mystery, harmonious unity with the natural world, and on the history of the characters’ love relationships. The author’s individual manner of “writing out” the image of the Beloved, based on the mythological consciousness of the author, cultural and life values, is explored. The most striking example of revealing the image of the Beloved, which absorbed the main characteristics captured in the work of E.D. Aipin, according to the authors of the article, is the image of Jenny from the novel “In Search of the First Earth”.