АНТИУТОПИЧЕСКИЙ ПАФОС И СПЕЦИФИКА ХРОНОТОПА В РАННЕЙ ПРОЗЕ В.О. ПЕЛЕВИНА
DYSTOPIAN PATHOS AND THE PECULIARITIES OF CHRONOTOPE IN V. PELEVIN’S EARLY PROSE
Author(s): Anastasia Leonidovna Bobyleva, Tatiana Gennadevna ProkhorovaSubject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philosophical Traditions, Special Branches of Philosophy, Russian Literature, Existentialism, Philosophy of Religion
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: V. Pelevin; dystopia; postmodernism; Buddhism; transformation; chronotope; travesty;
Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the dystopian tendencies in Victor Pelevin’s prose of the 1990s. The features of the chronotope and the dialogic connections with classic dystopias are revealed. The analysis leads to the conclusion that the dystopian look at the future is replaced in Pelevin’s works by the post-utopian view on the present. At the same time, the nature of the chronotope is determined by the Buddhist conception of human life as a chain of sufferings and the idea of the circle of samsara. However, both post-utopian and Buddhist paradigms undergo travesty, which leads to the transformation of the chronotope and the conflict as well as to the reduction of the dystopian pathos. As a result, the genre of dystopia becomes an object of parody.
Journal: Ученые записки Казанского университета. Серия Гуманитарные науки
- Issue Year: 156/2014
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 55-64
- Page Count: 10
- Language: Russian
