Vadim Shefner's Story A Sister of Sorrow: Characters, Style, Meaning

The purpose of the work is to study the story of Vadim Sergeevich Shefner A Sister of Sorrow. It is a way to describe with consequence the history of this works publications and literary critique, which are realised during Soviet and post-Soviet time. The next objest’s are studied according to this critique: images of main and second heroes, mutual relations of them, being in texts bordres, as well as moral collisions, descending from the essence of images. The problems of narratives organisation and the specialities of texts pencraft are osculated too. The communications of pencraft statutes and sensual collisions turnovers are observed. The common analysis of all the occasions in the text is permitting to reason about the view of narrating hero, second personages and the very author to the events of Great Patriotic Wars epoch as it is described in the story. The perception of narrating hero tries to reconstruct the atmosphere of life before and during the war and the image of Leningrad blocade by the way. The people’s emotions are reconctructed too. A corresponding peculiarity of Shefners story is being analysed at first of all. Some paralleles between A Sister of Sorrow and other literary works are drawing under the circumstanses.