Humanities & Social Sciences 5 (2016 9) 1148-1154 ~ ~ ~ УДК 82’06 The Violence Plot as a Refl ection of the V. Rasputin Transformed Worldview: novels “The Last term”, “Ivan’s Daughter, Ivan’s Mother” Vasilina A. Stepanova* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 12.02.2016, received in revised form 17.04.2016, accepted 03.05.2016 This paper deals with the recurring plots of violence, shown in the novels “The Last Term” and “Ivan’s daughter, Ivan’s mother”. <...> The situations are developing in opposite ways, this fact suggests the rethinking of provisions, forming the basis of the writer’s worldview. <...> The chronotope, the image of the “Other”, the ability of the kin and the community to protect, and gender roles offer a radically different solution of confl icts in the latter work. <...> Analysis of recurring plots seems promising for understanding the transformation of V. Rasputin’s original worldview, allowing revealing the relevant categories and tracking philosophical changes. <...> Statement of the problem In this paper we will focus on the plot of violence that appeared in the novel “The Last Term” (1970) and was transformed into the narrative collision in the fi nal novel “Ivan’s Daughter, Ivan’s Mother” (2003 ). <...> The Violence Plot as a Refl ection of the V. Rasputin Transformed Worldview. in “Violence and the Sacred” establishes a link between sexuality and violence as such, noting that “the most extreme form of violence cannot be directly sex in their nature simply because they are collective. <...> This reason only would be enough to explain why the interpretation of the sacred, based on sexuality, certainly eliminates or minimizes the crucial role of violence, while the interpretation, based on violence, would undoubtedly put sexuality on a signifi cant place, its rightful place in any primitive religious thinking” (Girard, 2000, 28). <...> Omission of Violence in the novel “The Last Term” In the story “The Last Term” the situation is given retrospectively: Lusya having come to say goodbye to his mother went to the forest, where the memories overtake her. <...> This recollection occurred suddenly, it is not subject to the heroine: Lusya went the same way as many years ago, but “she does not choose where to go, what <...>