Around the “mystery of eternal destruction and eternal salvation”: The moral and philosophical “spiral” by Y.V. Bondarev

The research deals with a specific “Bondarev’s” feature of the human characters study in holistic poetical and philosophical space of his works about war, the author’s position, his manner of artistic thinking, the formation of his own, individual author’s worldview, which is based on deep traditions of Russian classical artistic and philosophical thought, outgoing to the works of A.S. Pushkin, F.M. Dostoevsky and L.N. Tolstoy. The “touches" of understanding of the so-called Bondarev’s “spiral” are presented, its main features are formulated. In the aspect of the spiritual and cultural paradigm, the behavior of some Y.V. Bondarev’s heroes is conceptualized in a situation designated by him as “either-or”, dating back to traditional Russian spiritual conflict of “eternal destruction or eternal salvation”.