Farewell to Mother

Valentina Rasputin"s name is widely known in Russia, and beyond its limits - his books are translated into many languages ​​of the world. In his work, there was a reflection of the acute problem of the end of the XX century: the destruction of nature and morality under the influence of civilization. The writer is asked about the meaning of life, the ratio of morality and progress, about death and immortality. And about what makes a person man: about courage and dignity, about patience and faith. V. Rasputin creates images of Russian women, the carriers of the moral values ​​of the people, his philosophical globility, developing and enriching the image of rural righteous. In the story "Farewell with Materia", the Russian idea of ​​the Cattle, the Slitney of a Man with the world, the Universe, comes from the greatest completeness. In the story "Live and Remember, the writer told the ambiguous history of the soldier, whom everyone considers a deserter, showing the tragity and extreme degree of imperfection of wartime. Piercing sincerity, tragedy and confession of prose V. Rasputin shocked not one generation of readers