СОРОКАЛЕТНИЕ И ТРИДЦАТИЛЕТНИЕ В РУССКОЙ СОВЕТСКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЕ 80-Х ГОДОВ
THE GENERATION OF THE 40 AND 30 YEAR OLD WRITERS IN THE SOVIET LITERATURE OF THE 80IES

Summary/Abstract: The so called “sorokaletnie” (V. Gusev, A. Afanas’ev, A. Kim, V. Makanin) do not consider writing as a means of criticizing social and political events. Their hero - not a positive one- is an average townsman, weak and defenceless in front of everyday life problems. No moral lessons in their works, but a simple question: how are Russian people at the end of the 20th century to live? Makanin writes „against rifonov” (according to his own words), as he wants to point out that, in spite of technical and scientific progress, modern man is lost and unconsciously seeks for spiritual support, needs to believe in something (’The precursor”) in order to struggle against his distress. But in difference to country writers’, spiritual aims of the “sorokaletnie” are not stamped with nationalism or religion.

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