THE TWO FLIGHTS (BASED ON THE STORIES OF L.I. BORODIN “A VISIT” AND “GOING TO THE SKY”)

Abstract

The article examines L. Borodin’s stories “A Visit” and “Go to the Sky”, which were written in different periods of the writer’s work and dedicated to various topics, but connected by the motif of flight. The purpose of the study is to identify commonalities and differences in the artistic embodiment of this motif in the aforementioned works. A comparative method is used. The author of the work comes to the following conclusions. For the heroes of both works, flight becomes a source of vitality and brightness of impressions, so they are unable to live without it. The desire to fly is interconnected with a state of spiritual crisis from which the heroes are looking for a way out. The understanding of flight in both works resonates with religious and ethical issues, and also has serious significance for the plot and compositional organization of the texts. The motif of flight thus plays a key role in L. Borodin’s stories “A Visit” and “Go to the Sky”.