The article examines L.I. Borodin's short story “Once on Vacation” as a peculiar echo of the “village prose” of the 1960s and 1980s. The purpose of the work is to analyze the author's concept of solving one of the most important issues for this ideological and thematic stream, which is the problem of the relationship between the urban and rural worlds. The article uses the method of holistic text analysis, which allows the reader to understand the writer's perspective on the issue of the intelligentsia and the common people, as well as the city and the countryside, through the use of imagery, symbolism, and the nature of the dialogue and plot twists. The article substantiates the conclusion that L.I. Borodin's short story “Once on Vacation” expresses the author's point of view on the possibility of full-fledged communication between a person from an urban civilization and a person from a rural world. The plot of the work proves that, according to the writer, the rural intuitive and organic perception of the world is more fruitful than the intellectual perception of the world and people, which is mediated by philosophical reflection.
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