Humanities & Social Sciences 5 (2016 9) 1155-1165 ~ ~ ~ УДК 82-3 Flash Fiction by M.A. Tarkovsky in the Context of Traditionalism: the End of Direction vs. Different Prospect Nikita A. Valyanov* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 22.11.2015, received in revised form 30.12.2015, accepted 26.02.2016 Flash fi ction of the contemporary Siberian writer M.A. Tarkovsky is considered by critics and literary scholars in the context of late traditionalism. <...> The motive of chaos and loss of national / traditional, relevant for the post-village literature are becoming mainstream in the prose of the writer and are manifested in the literary texts by R.V. Senchin, A. N. Varlamov, O.O. Pavlov and others. <...> The writer himself defi nes the boundary of transition from the crisis of national identity to the problem of rethinking and native values preservation. <...> The hero- intellectual is bound to return to the folk origins, reconnect with nature and feel the original existence. <...> Another way of survival is constructed in the fi ctional world of M.A. Tarkovsky: the writer creates the ideology of asceticism and approves his own cultural and geographical marginality (A.I. Razuvalova). <...> Understanding of tradition as the most important category of human existence is transformed in the fl ash fi ction of the author. <...> Introduction V.I. Belov, Leading representatives of “village prose” – F.A. Abramov, V.G. Rasputin, V.M. Shukshin, V.P. Astafi ev spoke about destruction of Russian village as a national disaster at the turn of the 1960s – 1970s. <...> In the essay “I Am Writing about the North” F.A. Abramov noted: “ <.> The old village with its thousand years of history falls into oblivion these days <.>, age-old foundations are being destroyed, the centuries-old ground on which our © Siberian Federal University. <...> The decline of rural life also troubled V.I. Belov, who believed in the saving mission of peasantry: “<.> Peasantry is salvation of the nation and the state, the language, traditions and the culture of every nation” (Belov, 1993: 15). <...> V.G. Rasputin as well suffered from the unbearable pain caused by the destruction of the Christian foundations: “<.> the peasant became landless – the land was left without a master – the society became homeless” (Rasputin 1991: Nikita A. Valyanov. <...> Flash Fiction by M.A. Flash Fiction by M.A. <...>