CREATION THROUGH DESTRUCTION: RUSSIAN LITERATURE OF 2000S
The article explores new trends of Russian prose fiction, which became apparent in 2000s, first of all in so called “boom of dystopias”. The author examines two kinds of contemporary dystopia, namely the one predicting desintegration of the state and the one predicting creation of the totalitarian state, and demonstrates their differences: predictions of chaos were forgotten before long, while predictions of the autocracy’s reinforcement are saved in the literary history and continue to remain actual. In Vladimir Sorokin’s dystopia “A Day of Opritchnik” the author finds not a fancy about the future, but the reflection of our days´ political realia, represented through the hyperbola. In Mikhail Elizarov’s dystopia “The Librarian” the author finds communal values of the classical Russian literature, and concludes that modern writers are overcoming postmodernism and return to the Russian literature of the 19th century.