АРХИВНЫЙ ВЕКТОР В СОВРЕМЕННОЙ РУССКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЕ
THE ARCHIVAL VECTOR IN MODERN RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: The author’s intention is to study the “archival” vector of modern Russian literature. When the state archives were opened in the 1990s, it became a shock for those citizens who tried to comprehend the recent history of the USSR. Insight into these materials initiated a new vector in literature — “archival”. The article examines two contemporary Russian texts: Sasha Filipenko’s novel The Red Cross and Sukhbat Aflatuni’s novel The Earthly Paradise. All the plot twists in these texts are not the author’s invention, but the paradigm of the political investigatory records of 1937–1938: interrogation protocols, indictments, relatives’ statements, various kinds of certificates. The narrator fills in the gaps that are missing in documents: builds links between the interrogation protocols, restores the psychological context, the relationship between the accused and the investigator, — and the picture of the past becomes complete and convincing.

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