Poetics of the circle “Militia romance” by Z. Prilepin: the collision of the images of childhood, music and death as the basis of motive system of text

The article deals with the peculiarities of the poetics of the circle “Militia romance” by Z. Prilepin. There is analyzed the specificity of the author’s personification of the motives of childhood, music and death in the images of the principal characters and the plot collisions of the circle. Particularly, there are analyzed the specific features of designing the hero by the means of the contrastive combination of the archetypes of soldier and child for the poetics of Z. Prilepin that continues the frequency theme of the sensitive macho image in the neorealist prose of the writer. There is revealed the dominant role of the opposition of music and death in the aesthetic space of the circle.