THE SPIRITUAL / BODILY OPPOSITION IN THE PORTRAIT OF THE «GENERATION OF THE 2000S» (BASED ON OLGA BRAININGER’S FICTION)

Abstract

The article explores Olga Brainninger's novel «There was no Aderolo in theSoviet Union» and the cycle of short stories «Life to the High». It demonstrates the conceptual unity of works imaging younger generation and the sequence of stories’ style, as well as the coincidence of the motif systems in the novel and the short stories. The study reveals several vectors of the spiritual / physical interpretation of the opposition: the rethinking of the spiritual and its reduction to the ideological, the reduction of the physical, the image of the perverts, complexes, the changed state of consciousness, the reprogramming of consciousness. The paper argues that the writer travesties the traditional religious interpretation of spiritual and physical relationships provocatively desacralizing the spiritual. The features of transient artistic thinking are distinguished: the image of the world as «reversed», the tragic apocalyptic worldview, mythologization, and the image of the subculture. The character of the «inverted» mad world correlates with the image of a madman, a victim and a potential threat to the brutal world.