Лишний человек и маленький человек в русской литературе ХХI века
“Superfluous man” and “little man” in the XXI-century Russian literature

Summary/Abstract: Due to the rapid social changes after the collapse of the Soviet Union there occurred a need to present a new literary character with whom the readers could identify themselves. Facing the lack of the new models of all-Russian character, Russian writers began to use well-known literary patterns from the past. The aim of the given article is to analyse the main characters of two defining works at the beginning of XXI-century Russian literature — Generation ‘P’ by Victor Pelevin and Dukhless by Sergey Minaev — in terms of presence of the features characterising the superfluous man and the little man. These two categories of characters in XIX-century Russian literature are being partially transposed so as to fit the contemporary mentality and conditions of everyday life.

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