Motif of road in collection "My roads through the war" by V.F. Maslov

The article addresses the motif of the road as one of the key ones in the work of front-line writers. The research relevance is accounted for by the need for a holistic study, analysis, and understanding of the poetic work of Pridnestrovian author Vasily Fedotovich Maslov, since his works contain rich factual material about the war. The focus is made on his lyrical collection "My Roads through the War", published in 2010 by the anniversary of the Great Victory. In the course of the analysis of the literary texts by V.F. Maslov a number of relevant methods have been applied, among them are biographical, narrative, descriptive, and comparative historical methods. The road is interpreted as a difficult life path of a soldier in war, a rapid offensive against enemy forces, escape routes, sometimes through native lands, as well as a happy return home. The conclusions about the peculiarities of the road motif representation in the work by V.F. Maslov have been drawn. The motif of the road is one of the central ones in the collection of the Pridnestrovian poet, and is characterized by both positive, and negative semantics.