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Name: «The Acts of Azlazevon» by L.M. Leonov: a hagiographic plot and genre in the author’s interpretation

Authors: Nepomnyashchikh Natalia Alekseevna

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: The paper discusses the genre specificity of the story «The Acts of Azlazivon» by L.M. Leonov. A correlation is made of the plot situations in the acts of Nifont Kiprsky and Simeon Stolpnik with similar plot situations in the story by Leonov. An analysis is made of separate coincident motifs and of their re-comprehension by the author.

Keywords: l.m. leonov’s works, hagiographic traditions in the modern literature, plot, motif

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