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Snow

Student: Timkin Vladislav

Supervisor: Marina Stepnova

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Educational Programme: Creative Writing (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2021

Snow is a story about the relationship of people with each other, with themselves, with their past and things that cannot be fully cognized. The action unfolds on several levels: this is a psychotherapist's office in Moscow, and dreams, and another parallel reality - the one from which fears and desires come, where we came from and where in the end we will go. An important feature of the text is the rhythm - the fastest possible, on the verge of breakdown, panting. This is done so that the reader is caught in a whirlpool of images and lost orientation within the text: who is talking about what. The figures of the heroes are also mobile: they are more symbols than performers of clearly defined roles, moving through the text from the beginning to the end. The main idea of ​​the story is that everything is not what it seems. Everything can be thought from a different angle, and anything can be the key to such a new vision, provided, however, that you are ready to listen, hear and be with the world and in the world. The world is full of answers - for the one who asks right questions. But it is precisely the questions that often turn out to be beyond our power. In the finale, the text collapses, and through its breaks, it is shown that which holds everything together - love, capable of anything, even forgiving oneself. The labyrinth cannot be known, but it must be passed.

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