MYTHOPOETICS AND INTERTEXTUALITY IN THE WORKS OF RUSSIAN CYBERPANK
The article deals with the elements of mythopoetics and intertextuality in the works of Russian cyberpunk. It is noted that the development of Russian cyberpunk in the framework of the practical aesthetics of postmodernism is largely due to the presence of the elements of fantasy in it. The fabulation characteristic of the literature of postmodernism which means the unity of reality and fiction can include various fantastic elements in a realistic narrative. The mythopoetic component of cyberpunk is determined, first of all, by the image of the main character, his plot acts and deeds. Such representations of evil and good, chaos and space which are traditional for the myth are associated with it, and, most importantly, he is endowed as an actor with the function to harmonize the world and to give it meaning and order. He, as a collective hero, is attributed the role of a savior and protector and a character which corresponds to his purpose - freedom-loving, strong-willed and courageous, able to withstand an evil and unjust world. Such a hero corresponds to the conceptual idea of the myth - the movement from chaos to space, a problem that puzzled modern humanitarian consciousness. Mythological tradition meets not only the image of the protagonist but also the chaotic world of Russian cyberpunk. In such a ruined, unstructured world a person is disoriented and loses life confidence. However, the novel hero gradually comprehends the collision, those circumstances proposed by history in which he was not at will. Randomness as a characteristic collision in the mythological tradition in the works we analyze often correlates with the absence of axiological guidelines and nondiscrimination of good and evil. In the entropy world of the Russian cyberpunk it is sometimes difficult to determine which action should be considered benevolent and which not, who is the criminal and who is the hero which fights for justice despite the violation of the laws, such as hackers, for example. The article concludes that the expansion of the artistic space of cyberpunk is facilitated by intertext. In the works of the analyzed genre, there are both explicit and implicit forms of intertextuality. Explicit forms of intertextuality are basically the names of heroes which can refer both to myth and to a fairy tale. This is a general characteristic of the literature of postmodernism. An implicit form of intertextuality is the lexical and stylistic heterogeneity of the text.