Utopia оf Absurd (From Andrey Platonov’s Novels to V. P’etsukh’s Texts) Cover Image

Утопия абсурда (от романов А. Платонова до В. Пьецуха)
Utopia оf Absurd (From Andrey Platonov’s Novels to V. P’etsukh’s Texts)

Author(s): Ol'ga Stukalova
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Česká asociace slavistů
Keywords: genre of utopia; dystopia; absurdity; Russian literature of the 20th century; the tradition of prose; Andrey Platonov; genre originality

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to the genre identity of A. V. Platonov’s texts and identify features of the refractive Platonov’s tradition in the modern Russian prose. The problem of a genre is not purely literary theoretical problem. In choosing a genre the writer’s point of view at the reality most clearly reveals. The author examines Andrey Platonov’s novels as a utopia of absurdity. The enormity of the absurd life is that the characters do not seem to notice the surrounding chaos, rushing together to unfeasible illusionary future, and the ideas of harmony are the absolutely different for everyone.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 5-23
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Russian