The theme of memory and ways of its embodiment in M. Yefetov's story "Letter on the Shell"

The article explores the theme of memory and its realization in the novella "Letter on the Shell" by Mark Semyonovich Efetov. Different types of memory are identified: personal and collective, individually significant and socio-oriented, cultural, historical, etc. Various ways of realizing this theme are examined: in precedent names (Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Shalyapin, Mikhail Shchepkin, Zinovy Solovyov, etc.), symbolic images (the sea, Artek, Ayu-Dag, Adalary, etc.), significant objects, visualizations of phenomena, ideas, Crimean myths and legends, etc. The archetypal nature and role of the author's filling of the images of the characters in Efetov's novella are revealed, leading to important moral and ethical postulates. This work emphasizes themes of communication within families, friendship groups, personal relationships, as well as issues related to overcoming grievances and restoring friendships for the sake of a common cause. The article employs comparative, hermeneutic, and comparative-typological research methods to reflect on these aspects. Using a systemic approach, it provides an analytical study of the ways of understanding the theme of memory and its realization. The novelty of the study is determined by the timeliness of the article, whose significance is based on the importance of the identified problems, as well as the relevance to contemporary adolescents and the practically unexplored material of research, which is Efetov's novella "Letter on the Shell." For the first time, this work explores the theme of historical, cultural, and moral memory embedded in the history of the famous pioneer camp, in the history of Russia, and in the history of human civilization, traced from antiquity to the second half of the 20th century. The children's camp is understood as a keeper and witness of important historical events, a transmitter of the moral laws of human existence, and an educator of a new generation of children. The article is timed to coincide with the centenary of Artek and the eightieth anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War. The prospect of the research is the further exploration of the theme of memory in works related both to the Crimean text (the works of A. Gaidar, E. Ilyina, L. Kassil, M. Polyanovsky, etc.) and to the vacation novella in general (the works of Yu. Kuznetsova, T. Mikheeva, etc.).