Abstract
The article examines the concept of catastrophe, one of the main themes of art, extremely relevant in our time, marked by signs of entropy. It can be argued that this phenomenon is growing and affects many spheres of human life – both external, global (social), and internal (psychological). The author of the article focuses on how the awareness of the approaching catastrophe reflects a modern dystopia. Jaroslav Melnik's novel "Masha, or the Fourth Reich" is viewed from this angle. The article emphasizes that the dystopias of our time correct the attitudes of the classic dystopia, they tend to the diffusion of new genres, acquiring the features of a novel-parable, a novel-myth, a novel of alternative history. The controversy of the new formations, in which signs of utopia and its antipode are interspersed, is also noted. As for the ideological and thematic component, the author of the article states: Jaroslav Melnik focuses both on the traditional problems of humanism and the relationship between "man and society" and on the issues of the catastrophic dehumanization of the individual in the conditions of turbulent modern challenges.
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