Jurij Bondarev jako ruský fenomén a představitel epochy
Yuri Bondarev as a Russian phenomenon and a representative of the epoch

Summary/Abstract: The author of the present outline demonstrates both the personality and the literary work of Yuri Bondarev (1924–2020), a recently deceased (29 April) Russian writer representing — more or less — the whole Soviet epoch, a controversial conservative who expressed his resistance to post-Soviet, Yeltsin Russia (he even rejected to take over an award from him). Bondarev created three free cycles of novellas and novels: the first one connected with revaluation of the image of the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany, the second linked with the analysis of Stalinism and the crisis of Soviet intelligentsia, the third with the criticism of glasnost and perestroika and post-Soviet era paradoxically synthetizing old Russian, Orthodox and Soviet traditions. Only the future will tell us whether his aesthetically unbalanced, now nearly forgotten work survives its epoch.

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