Дыхание родной земли : (к 100-летию со дня рождения Виктора Астафьева)

The study reflects on a contemporary Russian writer Victor Astafyev (1924–2001). Victor Astafyev's creative activity was and remains a remarkable phenomenom, especially in the literary process of the second half of the twentieth century. In the proximity of his crucial pieces of work, which are namely the following: The last Tribute (1957–1978), Shepherd and Shepherdess. A Modern Pastoral (1967–1971) and Czar-Fish (1972–1975), Viktor Astafjev published in the years 1961–1988 approximately thirty short stories, which were later on published in the book—Notches (1988). The study reflects on a contemporary Russian writer, Victor Astafyev, whose prose has not only been an important constituent part of Russian literature, but also has retained to this day its artistic power.