Abstract
From the diversity of genre-stylistic solutions of the problem ‘a person in a horrified world’ the author of the report has chosen for research prose that reflects severe and tragic reality through the magic crystal of centuries-old culture the territory of which was caught in the throes of war: these are the books of N. Abgaryan ‘Keep living’, P. Zherebtsova “Thin silver thread’, V. Medvedeva ‘Zakhok’.
The author views war not as a completed event but as continuing state, which permeates, deforms and destroys lives of people and whole nations. Collective tragedy opens to a reader through personal stories of characters: common grief is overcome with love, hard work, patience and that cultural capital, which being manifested in the mentality and people’s way of life provide a chance for their physical survival and spiritual breaking point. Emerging from a particularly trying period people are not only able to restore their everyday life to move on but also keep sad remembrance in their hearts regaining markers of new cultural identity without which truly human existence is impossible.