Simple faith of Alexander Grin
This article examines a short fragment of Alexander Grin’s novel The Shining World, in which the writer employs Christian symbols. This is not typical of his literary works and incorporates this fact in the context of the writer’s biography. Indeed, those who deal with Grin’s texts (particularly spe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Russian |
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St. Tikhon's Orthodox University
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Vestnik Pravoslavnogo Svâto-Tihonovskogo Gumanitarnogo Universiteta: Seriâ II. Istoriâ, Istoriâ Russkoj Pravoslavnoj Cerkvi |
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| Online Access: | http://periodical.pstgu.ru/ru/pdf/article/6797 |
| Summary: | This article examines a short fragment of Alexander Grin’s novel The Shining World, in which the writer employs Christian symbols. This is not typical of his literary works and incorporates this fact in the context of the writer’s biography. Indeed, those who deal with Grin’s texts (particularly specialists in literary studies) analyse the novel with no connection to the writer’s life after the revolution of 1917 and regard Grin as a non-religious person, making the evaluation of the writer’s religious views too complicated and tracing in his heroes some features of demonism and militant atheism. Such approach is hardly viable. Evidence of the contemporaries demonstrate that under the infl uence of his family (the writer’s second spouse, Nina Grin, and her mother were religious persons), as well as not supporting repressions against the Orthodox church, Grin returns to the church, which is indirectly evidenced by the fragment from the novel The Shining World, which poses certain diffi culties as to its interpretation. Grin’s faith is simple in a childlike manner, and traditional. His contemporaries’ memoirs also confirm this. It should also be noted that two days before his death, Grin asked to call for a priest and had a confession. |
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| ISSN: | 1991-6434 2409-4811 |