THIRD TERTIARY OF THE ARTISTIC ALTERNATIVES: A POLITICAL NOVEL IN THE DISCOURSE OF ALTERNATIVE HISTORY
THIRD TERTIARY OF THE ARTISTIC ALTERNATIVES: A POLITICAL NOVEL IN THE DISCOURSE OF ALTERNATIVE HISTORY

Summary/Abstract: The genealogy of alternative history is sure to go back to the genre matrix of the historical novel and the literary means of fantasy and science fiction. However, at the stage of its existence as a meta-genre, we see the interpenetration of the basic elements of poetics and genealogical coordinates also in the field of modern urban political prose, which are found in the artistic alternative of the post-postmodern novel as a genre segment. So, to establish the peculiarities of poetics and genre originality of the political novel of alternative history, such examples in Ukrainian literature “The Third Tertiary” by O. Menshov and “Look Who's Back” by Timur Vermes (germ. Timur Wermes “Er ist wieder da” ) have been compared. Historiography of the issue. Genealogically alternative history was formed based on the matrix of the historical novel (according to N. Kopystianska - even based on the English historiographical novel) and the formal markers and architectonic “puzzles” of the science-fiction novel. In the historical and literary key of temporality, the first actual examples of the novel of alternative history concern the early twentieth century in the United States, Canada, Western Europe and spread in the literature of the Slavic world in the mid-twentieth century, being actualized in Russian and far Eastern literature in the 70s of the twentieth century. In the second decade of the XXI century, historical alternative in fiction appeared and gained popularity in the middle-literature of Australia and Oceania. Thus, the history of alternative history in Europe and America is sure to go back to the genre matrix of the historical novel and the literary means of fantasy and science fiction. However, at the stage of its existence as a meta-genre, we see the interpenetration of the basic elements of poetics and genealogical coordinates also in the field of modern urban political prose, which are found in the artistic alternative of the post-postmodern novel as a genre segment.

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