CHRISTIAN TRADITION AND LITERARY ART

The author defines the tradition as the presence of the cultural memory in a piece of writing. Conceptualization of the Christian spirit of man in art work suggests the Christian tradition. The tradition in the folklore, the rhetorical era, and the Modern age is considered. Anti traditionalism of the 20th century is interpreted in the article as a break with the Christian tradition. To this effect, some vague relationships between Russian leading formalists and theorists of postmodernism, who relied on the marginal cultural minority, can be traced. An attitude is given for the adherent of the Christian tradition in the 20th-century art both in Russia and in the West.