Stručni rad
Some Elements of Mythology and Fantasy in Postmodernist Prose by Victor Pelevin (in the Examples of the Texts of the Yellow Arrows, Omon, Ra, Čapajev and the Void Gaps, Generation Pi, The Holly Book of the Warewolf)
Zoran Ćoso
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; Sveučilište u Zadru, Zadar, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Mythology and fantasy, the elements of the time very long ago, have been interwoven with the modern time of post-Soviet Russia in the novels and short stories of contemporary Russian writer Victor Olegovich Pelevin. These elements of the past, although supposedly left very far behind, keep appearing in some new forms as never fully explained problems from the realm of the irrationality that in reality influence the life of individuals and society as a whole. The aim of this paper is to apply the analytical approach on the selected literary examples in order to show how Pelevin problematizes the idea of the modern society, which, although nominally very far away from the world of old myths and fantasies, which is beyond our physical reach and rational explanation, all the same is being ruled by these invisible, hidden, often irrational and inhuman motivators, instead of those that are publicly declared and socially accepted.
Ključne riječi
mythology; fantasy; postmodernism; subconscious; contemporary; post-Soviet Russia; apparition; ambiguity; allegory; humor; stratification; change
Hrčak ID:
254107
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.3.2021.
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