The archetypical plot about the prodigal son and the authors' consciousness in the dialogue of epochs (based on A.S. Pushkin's and L.N. Andreev's stories)

The story of A. Pushkins The Stationmaster and the story L.N. AndreevsSilence we note the correlations at the level of plots, motifs and images, thanks to the appearance superpersonal memory of the literaryprocess. Both plots go back to the archetypical story of the prodigal son and serve as an example of an individual author's consciousnessmodelling of topical subjects and options for separation from the ideal to solve the eternal conflict of generations. Thenarratives are based on the conflict between the childrens will and the authority of fathers leading to the creation of their own biography.Conceptual universality of the mythological model of generations relationships is the primary object for a conscious or unconsciousmodelling activity. The biblical story of Fathers - Sons renders the conflict of generations expressed in the text explicitly orimplied in the subtext of a plot formative potential (4 Silantyev) and contains the possibility of development, complication with additionalmotifs. The thematic concept of the motif, which is the conflict of generations associated with the manifestation of self-will and achoice of a path, represents a variety of intertextual interpretations, connecting the various texts into a single semantic space. From thepoint of view of the structural correlation the interconnection of the two texts occurred at the level of the motif of leaving, falling andreturning of the prodigal daughter, the motif of the prodigal son, read by the readers consciousness in the works, the motif of secret,which is constructive in understanding the ideological and artistic contents of the works. The latter is associated with the city,bringing the heroes to death. Similar spatial dominants city - house - eternal home (the cemetery) are arranged in a paradigm,despite the fact that the semantics of images at home and St. Petersburg is opposite. The Myth of Petersburg is forming consciousness ofthe characters and is of a sense-forming function. Under the action of the city the idyll home is being destroyed, the image of which isbeing transformed into the image of the lost home. The values of the loss of the idyll home and finding peace in the eternal homebring together the images of homes and cemeteries. The locus of cemeteries as places to remove the conflict of generations is anotherpoint of convergence of the two texts. The biblical parable of the prodigal son includes a sample dialogue between the God and a man,the dialogue of consciousness of the father and the son, the dialogue restoring harmony. From the viewpoint of The Stationmaster it isimpossible to return to the source. From the viewpoint of Silence the crisis of existence excludes the possibility of a brighter future,deprives man of the house, hopes and that reinforces the tragedy. So, the motif of a life temporary return and the motif of an impossiblereturn are embodied in the texts. Historical contexts of the works also correlate. The catastrophe of social reality is inherent in the differentages of the texts creation. Thus, we can speak about the convergence of the two texts at the level of motifs, spatial dominants, and atthe level of cross-functional homonymy of the images. Intertextual correlation of the biblical and relevant texts convinces the strength ofthe Christian basis of all cultural traditions and takes place despite the temporary abyss and bypassing the consciousness of the speakers,representing a typological sense of divergent models of the plot, and original archetype thereby responding to the epochs dialogue.

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