Образы прошлого и будущего в прозе Владимира Сорокина и Сергея Лебедева. Творческие пути русских эмигрантов к пониманию настоящего

Mateusz Jaworski

doi:10.31261/RSL.2024.34.11

Published: 2024-10-25

Vol. 34 (2024)

The Images of the Past and the Future in the Prose of Vladimir Sorokin and Sergei Lebedev. Creative Paths of Russian Émigrés to Understanding the Present

Mateusz Jaworski

Section: Dział główny

https://doi.org/10.31261/RSL.2024.34.11

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The present paper aims at analyzing the images of the past and the future in the prose of two contemporary Russian émigré writers — Vladimir Sorokin and Sergei Lebedev. The author has selected two relevant texts from their works which produce certain similarity in understanding the interrelations between the past and the present. Sorokin’s dystopia depicts the New Russia yet to come, but strangely resembling its deep past. On the other hand, Lebedev uses a literary motif of a nonlinear perception and flow of time, which shows an ambiguous relationship between the present and the past.

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Vladimir Sorokin , Sergei Lebedev , the past in literature , prophetic literature

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Jaworski, M. (2024). The Images of the Past and the Future in the Prose of Vladimir Sorokin and Sergei Lebedev. Creative Paths of Russian Émigrés to Understanding the Present. Rusycystyczne Studia Literaturoznawcze, 34, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.31261/RSL.2024.34.11

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Mateusz Jaworski

matjaw@amu.edu.pl
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-5546

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Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan Poland

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Mateusz Jaworski - associate professor in the Russian Literature Department (Institute of Russian and Ukrainian Philology, Adama Mickiewicza University, Poznań), publishing editor of "Eastern Slavonic Cultures - Aspects and Dialog", author of the doctoral thesis devoted to Viktor Pelevin's novels. Research interests: contemporary Russian literature, literary theory, postmodern philosophy. The most important publications:

Jaworski M., Проблема автотеличности языка в романах Виктора Пелевина, „Kultury Wschodniosłowiańskie – Oblicza i Dialog”, nr 7/2017, s. 65-78.

Jaworski M., Солипсизм в романной поэтике Виктора Пелевина, "Studia Rossica Posnaniensia" nr 42/2017, s. 5-17.
Jaworski M., Категории времени и пространствав творчестве Михаила Шишкина. На материале романа Венерин волос, [w:] Знаковые имена современной русской литературы: МИХАИЛ ШИШКИН, red. A. Skotnicka, J. Świeży, Kraków 2017, s. 395-402.

Jaworski M., Historiozofia alternatywna w prozie Wiktora Pielewina. Na przykładzie powieści „Empire V” i „Batman Apollo”, „Studia Rossica Posnaniensia”, nr 41/2016, s. 95-104.

Jaworski M., Глобализация и постсоветская идентичность в прозе Виктора Пелевина, [w:] (Non)Belonging: (Re)Reading Identities, red. L. Sikorska, J. Jarząb, M. Frątczak, Poznań 2016, s. 176-185.

Vol. 34 (2024)
Published: 2024-10-30

ISSN: 0208-5038

eISSN: 2353-9674

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