It is time for the Russian writer to once again become an echo of the people and express what has never happened with unprecedented power, in which there will be pain, love, insight, and a person renewed in suffering. V. Rasputin. My Manifesto V. G. Rasputin is perceived by his contemporaries as a writer who is able to solve the "eternal" questions of human existence in an artistically convincing and psychologically reliable manner using local material, and to pose problems of national, acute social and universal significance. The author's creative work ranges from the first novel "Money for Maria" (1967) to short stories of recent years, such as " Women's Conversation "(1994), " To the same Land "(1995), "Vision" (1997), "Unexpectedly" (1997), " New Profession"(1998), "Izba" (1999), has a certain unity - the unity of idea, pathos and style. ""Farewell to the Mother", - S. Semenova notes, - is not so much a story about a certain specific flooding of a Siberian island, but a philosophical story that raises the question of the boundaries and moral limits of progress <...> The view of old woman Daria makes the most important changes in the perception and understanding of the world, not one-dimensional and momentary, but deep, connected with human involvement in the universal, cosmic life, and in the ancestral chain of generational succession" (Semenova S. G., Valentin Rasputin, Moscow, 1987, p. 130). An indisputable fact is Rasputin's fresh analytical view of reality. The writer's work reflects significant trends in the development of Russian prose in the last decades of the XX century, which are also focused in the works of V. Belov, V. Shukshin, V. Astafyev, F. Abramov, E. Nosov: interest in the inner world, moral search of a person, to his spiritual and emotional state. The soul of the sixty-year-old Pashuta, the heroine of the story "In the same land", who worked most of her life on the "construction site of socialism" in Bratsk and does not have the money to ... Read more