Протоиерей Константин Смирнов - Виктор Астафьев - Прокляты и убиты. часть 2 из 2
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Viktor Petrovich Astafyev accomplished his second soldier’s feat, when once again, not hiding from terrible memories, he went through the entire World War II on the pages of his novel. This is how Astafyev’s work researchers think. This book is not only an impeccable historical source about the war, it is, according to historian Archpriest George Mitrofanov, "a truly Christian, deep and merciful look at a person, so characteristic of Russian literature." Pages of the cruel and bloody novel V.P. Astafyev “Cursed and killed” (1992-1994), which criticism considers the “last” novel about the Great Patriotic War, is read by Archpriest Konstantin Smirnov. His warm baritone, calm, even, can be said, the majestic intonation reveals mercy and compassion led by the author into subtext. Archpriest George Mitrofanov shares his impressions of Astafyev’s novel, unexpected, deep, considering being in the war an universal disaster. It was this novel by Astafyev summed up his thoughts about the war as a "crime against the mind." These materials are complemented by poems about the war of the great classics of the 20th century - A. Twardowski, A. Akhmatova and others ....