Thunderstorm motif in creativity of Konstantin Paustovsky

Abstract

In the paper the author refers to the motive method of analysis of fiction in relation to the prose of Russian author Konstantin Paustovsky, whose 130-th anniversary is celebrated this year. It is noted that the image of a thunderstorm has become a stable motif of Russian prose and poetry since the 18th century. An attempt is made to show that Paustovsky’s thunderstorm motif is associated not only with a virtuoso description of a natural phenomenon, but is associated with the emergence of a whole range of thoughts, experiences, allusions that make up the socio-psychological background of the perception of nature, in which Paustovsky follows the tradition of Russian literature of the 19th century.