This article is devoted to the work of one of the most prominent representatives of modern Russian prose - A. Varlamov. The object of the study was the writer's small prose, as well as his novels and tales "Birth", "Loch", "Kupavna", "Hello, prince!", "My soul Paul", "House in the village." The problems of research are associated with the identification of the peculiarities of the embodiment of the Russian cultural code in the prose of the writer, who in modern literary criticism is seen as a successor to the traditions of village prose. It is the typological connection with the villagers that makes it possible to identify the dominant of the Russian cultural code, embodied in the spatial antinomy of the city - village. The study considers the key topos of this opposition, special attention is paid to the mythology of the "house" and the image of the church as key for the Russian Orthodox 33 consciousness. In the course of the study, it was found that the most frequent city in Varlamov's prose is Moscow; not only its center, but also the outskirts. Cult buildings in the city are the Kremlin, churches, the building of Moscow State University. The choice of location both urban and rural is largely due to the biography of the writer himself, and the plot situations themselves are largely autobiographical in nature. The plot situations associated with the central character, both in small prose and in novels and short stories, have certain similarities: the hero moves from one space to another: from city to village and vice versa. The localization of a character in the space of a city or village, his movement from one space to another in search of the meaning of life, faith, himself generates a special type of hero, which is also mentioned in this article.
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