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The village generation is a literary stream that shed the sign of Soviet literature between the 1950s and the 80s. The emergence of the current is linked to the historical events of the period: First World War (1914-1918), October Revolution (1917), Civil War (1917-1922), Hunger in the early 1920s, NEP [New Economic Policy (1920s)], World War II (1939-1945), Collectivization (1928-1933) and industrialization. The village writer Valentin Rasputin (1937-2015), the village of Atalanka, where his childhood was passed, was very influenced by the water stumbling due to the Bratsk hydroelectric power plant project and the village people were forced to move to another place by leaving the village. The land in which he was born and grown remains underwater and works as a journalist in Eastern Siberia in the early years of the summer art, and the valuable information he obtained about the construction projects and the local peoples finds his emphasis in his work Goodbye to Matyora (1976) . The article discussed the general lines of "the village generation in Russian literature" within the Russian historical framework, talking about Valentin Rasputin's summer art and the works of the village generation. Especially the long story of the writer to Matyora called Goodbye has been drawn up by historical and sociological methods in the context of the village generation. During the examination, the issues such as human-natural relationship, female image, generation conflict, memory and home images, as well as eskatology, apocalypse, and acciology were referred to.

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The village prose is a literary movement that marked the Soviet literature in the 1950s and 80s. The emergence of this movement is linked to the historical events of the period: The First World War (1914-1918), the October Revolution (1917), the Civil War Homeland War (1917-1922), the famine in the early 1920s, the NEP [New Economic Policy (1920s)], the Second World War (1939-1945), Collectivization (1928-1933) and industrialization. Village prose writer Valentin Rasputin (1937-2015) is highly influenced by the flood in village of Atalanka, where his childhood was spent, due to the Bratsk hydroelectric power plant project and the fact that the villagers had to leave the village and move to another place. The submergence of his homeland and the valuable information about the construction projects and local peoples that he acquired while working as a reporter in Eastern Siberia in the early years of his literary art echoes in the work of ‘Farewell to Matyora (1976). In this article, ‘Village Prose in Russian Literature’ was discussed in general terms within the Russian historical framework and the literary art and village prose works of Valentin Rasputin were mentioned. The author's long story, Farewell to Matyora was, especially, examined in historical and sociological methods in the context of village prose. During the study, the human-nature relationship, righteous woman image, generation conflict, memory and home images as well as eschatology, apocalypse and axiology were discussed.