Незамеченность и обманутость: Две грани драмы молодого поколения революционной эпохи
The Ones Left Unnoticed and the Deceived: The Two Faces of Drama of the Revolutionary Era’s Younger Generation

Summary/Abstract: The article outlines the approaches to understanding the generational drama of “young” authors, whose youth fell on the revolutionary era of the early twentieth century. The work states that The Ones Left Unnoticed was just one of the modi of the revolutionary generation’s dramatic destiny of the early 20th century, relating to the fate of the young, first-wave emigrants. For the young people who stayed in Russia and came to believe in the “affair of the Revolution,” the drama of their destiny manifested itself as the under-lived life: the social and political situation in the country did not give the Revolutionary generation any opportunity to grow old. The motif of under-lived life in all the complexity of its semantic projections was implemented in the works of A. Platonov. The extended position is performed in different genres: the novel (Happy Moscow), drama (The Voice of the Father, The Pupil of Lyceum, Jukebox) and Platonov’s letters. The breadth of the genre space increases the validity of the research position. Involved into the analysis were The Unnoticed Generation by V. Varshavsky, Shipwreck of a Generation by I. Berger and some correlations were made with the life and work of B. Poplavsky. With it, the author came to the conclusion that the two vectors of the Revolutionary generation’s fate – the emigrant (just barely marked by the author) and the Russian domestic – formed a single generational plot with the situation of under-realized/interrupted life in its center. This situation became prophetic for the fate of most of the young Soviet state, the creation of which demanded plenty sacrifices.

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