K otázke reflexie náboženskej skúsenosti v ruskej próze 21. storočia
CONCERNING THE REFLEXION OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN RUSSIAN PROSE FICTION OF 21ST CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: Following the historical tradition of spiritual searching which is deeply rooted in Russian literature, the article elaborates on the presence of religious experience in Russian prose of the 21st century. It also shows the ambivalent perception of religious phenomena by modern literary theory and criticism. The apparent return of Russian literature to its Christian tradition manifested in the number of writings with explicitly religious motives shows, when analysed thoroughly, a rather less developed treatment of spiritual searching and the thematization of the individual religious experience. However, it also offers plenty of examples of “true” Christian living. At the turn to the 21st century, the search for God and faith typical for Russian literature was replaced by presenting God (mostly in Orthodox Christian terms). The confessional nature of Russian literature, penetrating deeply into the depths of the human soul, is disappearing from prose writings and simultaneously one can observe the tendency to preaching and moralization. The article based on the analysis of works that were written in the last decade and that received a strong response from both literary critics and readers (authors: L. Ulitskaya, T. Shevkunov, J. Vodolazkin, M. Kucherskaya, O. Nikolayevova, V. Chaplin) seeks to understand whether the Christian themes are only a fashionable cultural and social trend or a development of the spiritual tradition of Russian literature.

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