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• "React with Cobra's Speed to Everyday Life" On the Trap of Actuality - Andrzej Stasiuk's Beskidy and World Chronicles (2018)

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  Agnieszka Janiec-Nyitrai

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  The goal of the paper is to analyze and depict the essays written by Polish contemporary
  author Andrzej Stasiuk in the wider context of writing strategies. The essays were collected
  in Beskidy and World Chronicles (2018). The paper also deals with Stasiuk's "workshop
  comments" about the art of writing and is concerned with author's attitude to changes in social,
  cultural and political life. Stasiuk searches for harmony and calmness. What he writes
  about is not topicalities but universal themes: nature, philosophy of living, everyday life.
  All that he can see in mass media is very strange and outlandish for him, while he looks for
  eternal values, describing chaos in modern world.

• The Motive of Passage as a Cultural Universal In I.S. Shmelev’s Novel “The Story of a Love”: Semantic and Functional Aspect

  Viktoriya Kondratyeva

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  137

  The article considers the motive of passage from the point of view of its role in the plot inI.S. Shmelev’s novel and from the point of view of mythopoetic meanings. It has been established that in the work “The Story of a Love” the symbolism of the passage motive is associated not only with the situation of the transition, but also with the Fall, which is interpreted by the writer as a stage of the movement towards insight. The passage motive organizes two spaces of storytelling: real and mental. Real space is divided into a space of purity and sin, the transition from one spatial locus to another also signifies the transition taking place in the soul of the protagonist from purity to sin and vice versa. The motives of the passage and temporary death are combined with the Christian motive of the transformation, allowing I.S. Shmelev to show the spiritual toss of the main character more clearly – as a transfer from life to death and its subsequent revival, as well as to assert the main motivein his work – the merger of the “mundane” and the “heavenly”, the world of objects, the material world and the “invisible" world of divine light.