Naslov
Obraz monstra v proze russkogo postmodernizma. Popytka tipologii
(Monster Imagery in Russian Postmodern Fiction: A Tentative Typology)

Autori
Benčić, Živa

Izvornik
Russian literature (0304-3479) 107-108 (2018); 93-122

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
čudovišča bez antropomorfnyh čert ; monstruoznye gibridy s čelovečeskim komponentom ; čelovečeskie monstry ; moral'nye urody ; živye mertvecy ; vampiry ;
(monsters without anthropomorphic traits ; hybrids with anthropomorphic component ; human monsters ; moral monsters ; living dead ; vampire ;)

Sažetak
The key aim of this paper is to try to formulate a typology of the image of monster in Russian postmodern fiction. Literary monsters are classified into different categories, depending on the presence of anthropomorphic traits in the psychophysical makeup. The paper also pays special attention to the prevailing tendency in postmodernist fiction which includes all types of monsters, that the Russian postmodernists (e.g. Iurii Mamleev, Tat’iana Tolstaia, Viktor Pelevin, Vladimir Sorokin, Viktor Erofeev and Dmitrii Prigov) almost neutralise the traditional opposition between the hero and the monster present from the ancient heroic epics, which results in the impossibility to tell them apart. Moreover, the analysis of the works analysed in the paper uncovers the metathesis of the opposition, in which the hero often transforms into the monster (as in Tat’iana Tolstaia’s novel The Slynx), or, alternatively, the monster becomes the hero (as in Viktor Pelevin’s novel Empire V). Finally, the paper tries to answer why this considerable part of Russian postmodernist fiction tends to overlap the hero and the monster and introduce a porous line between the human and the monstrous.

Izvorni jezik
Rus

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

POVEZANOST RADA