Образы прошлого и будущего в прозе Владимира Сорокина и Сергея Лебедева. Творческие пути русских эмигрантов к пониманию настоящего
The Images of the Past and the Future in the Prose of Vladimir Sorokin and Sergei Lebedev. Creative Paths of Russian Emigres to Understanding the Present

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims at analyzing the images of the past and the future in the prose of two contemporary Russian emigre writers — Vladimir Sorokin and Sergei Lebedev. The author has selected two relevant texts from their works which produce certain similarity in understanding the interrelations between the past and the present. Sorokin’s dystopia depicts the New Russia yet to come, but strangely resembling its deep past. On the other hand, Lebedev uses a literary motif of a nonlinear perception and flow of time, which shows an ambiguous relationship between the present and the past.

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