Abstract
Research subject is grounding efficiency and topicality of Russian literature (and its studies) as a cultural project, that could be apologia of a traditional individual. Methodological basis is anthropocentric literature of Erich Auerbach, Dmitry Likhachev, Sergey Averintsev, Harold Bloom, in which literary text analysis, assessment of genre structures lead to the conclusions on the individual’s state under the established cultural tradition. Analysis of contemporary Russian novels outlines authors’ worlds. Reading them evokes various images: of a passionate individual, often with certain intent, but always affected by the interaction with crises and voids (Yury Buida), an individual characterized by various anti-totalitarian acts, by aspiration to exercise the freedom of thought in everyday life (Ludmila Ulitskaya), an egocentric individual, believing that the most significant victories come in the representation of the own self (Edward Limonov), an individual prone to interaction with totalitarian principles, synthesizing non-canonic metaphysical forms and attributes of strong state under ambivalent relations of utopia and anti-utopia (Vladimir Sorokin), an individual actively exploring modern world and general existence in motions, related by the author to Oriental cognition principles and spiritual practices (Victor Pelevin). Our focused literary analysis aims at combining all text moves in plot and language that represent evolvement of a person as one of the central problems of any novel.
Highlights
Neomodernism can be considered as a dominant poetics of contemporary Russian prose due to the following theoretical and methodological grounds: utmost subjectivation of the narration, striving to create personal non-canonic artistic world; attention to metaphysical and historosophical discourses; ambivalent relations between utopian and anti-utopian cognitions; persistent search for coordinating archetypes
The paper generalizes artistic understanding of a person to maximally compressed results for identifying basic concepts integral to tackle the issue of a human in works by Yury Buida, Ludmila Ulitskaya, Edward Limonov, Vladimir Sorokin, and Victor Pelevin
On the second level poetics appears as an artistic phenomenon of worldview, and it is the concept of a human through which we perceive it
Summary
Neomodernism can be considered as a dominant poetics of contemporary Russian prose due to the following theoretical and methodological grounds: utmost subjectivation of the narration, striving to create personal non-canonic artistic world; attention to metaphysical and historosophical discourses; ambivalent relations between utopian and anti-utopian cognitions; persistent search for coordinating archetypes. Special attention is paid to theoretical and publicist writers’ statements of their own worlds, clarifying the relation between the novel discourse and their ideological and aesthetic position. Poetics comprises two levels: as an artistic component of the text and the science investigating these texts. On the second level poetics represents cohesive entity, exclusively author’s view of specific life laws, embodied in novels. On the second level poetics appears as an artistic phenomenon of worldview, and it is the concept of a human through which we perceive it. The laconic article bases on the first three stages, the forth and the fifth analytical stages shaping the contents of it
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