Zwrot polityczny w literaturze rosyjskiej, czyli „Lewy Front Sztuki” według Zachara Prilepina
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2014
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Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje
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A Political Turn in Russian Contemporary Literature or „Left Front of the Arts” by Zakhar Prilepin
Abstract
The paper concerns Russian contemporary politically engaged literature and takes into consideration the writings of an acclaimed Russian prose-writer, radical anti-Kremlin opposition activist –
Zakhar Prilepin. A political turn in Russian contemporary literature is a way of raising an objection
to the political authorities, who bring an incessant pressure on the society to reproduce the offi cial
public discourse. It is also the act of uniting particularities of aesthetics, existence and politics, as
well as breaking with the vision of literature distanced from the public issues. The common ground
for Russian writers’ political commitment is a resistance to the postmodernism paradigm connected
with an attempt to define the conditions and mechanisms of new ideology (in the „new realism”
current). Deeply political writings of Prilepin seem to be an anti-liberal and anti-individualistic
rebellion, as well as a thorough critical study of Russian contemporary society. The revolutionary
prose-writer is against the doctrine of cultural pluralism, the activities of neo-liberal ruling elite, the
growing political authority of Russian middle class and the dominant vision of collective memory.
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political turn, contemporary Russian literature, Zakhar Prilepin, politically engaged li terature, New realism current
Citation
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2014, nr 6, s.229–242
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978-83-63795-51-1