Moral Golgotha of man (death experience) in V. S. Garshyn's prose

The article is devoted to the analysis of V. Garshyn’s tales “Four days” and “Artists” in the context of an “Easter archetype” of Russian literature, formed in Christian tradition. The fundamental imperative of this archetype is comprehension of all life events as a sort of moral deeds, that is of “Moral Golgotha”. The latter takes a drastic form through death experience. According to V. S. Garshyn and European existentialism, consciousness of death is such a strong and deep commotion that it may provoke an existential crisis in a person’s soul, while in Christian tradition death is seen as pure beingness, that is not a tragedy but a sublime and indispensable purpose of Man’s earthly life on the way to the immortality of the soul. Indeed, death reveals the final meaning of earthly life, that is salvation of the soul. Garshyn brightly demonstrated it as no one else, thus manifesting a particular trait of a Russian artistic man of genius.