THE PROBLEM OF SPIRITUAL CRISIS AS A REFLECTION OF THE ERA IN THE LITERARY IMAGES OF JOHN GALSWORTHY

Abstract

The article examines the social and psychological novels of D. Golsworthy, which occupy a special place in European literature. The author classifies the work of the English writer as a "monologue type novel" (M. Bakhtin), reveals the crisis nature of the culture of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, its gravitation towards the past, dissatisfaction with the present, an attempt to overcome the firmly entrenched conservatism in a different vision of life. The study presents the influence of the creativity of Russian writers (I. Turgenev and L. Tolstoy) and the creativity of R. Roland on the formation of J. Galsworthy as a writer, identifies stable plot motives, images-symbols that hold the story lines of the novel's heroes together with the unity of the author's worldview. The author comes to the conclusion that the composition of J. Galsworthy's trilogy expresses the idea of the cyclical nature of life and the spiritual and social evolution of society.