Антиутопия в романах В. Набокова Приглашение на казнь и Т. Толстой Кысь

Аннотация

Dystopia in the Novels by V. Nabokov Invitation to a Beheading and T. Tolstaya Кys

Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading (1934) and Tolstaya’s Кys (1984-2000) build the model of the modern society. The reason to use a dystopia genre is a necessity to comprehend the leading social trends (the world before WWII, a crucial post-perestroika period in Russia). There is a special type of chronotope in the novels: “the end of history” is a starting point of an event, a developed cultural paradigm is replaced by the primitive one. The image of a future city is depicted in the novels: Town (Nabokov), Fedor-Кuzmichsk/Moscow (Tolstaya). Totalitarianism is in the centre of the narrative: writers examine cultural, moral aspects. The main conflict is person and society. The “quasi-carnival” is defined as a structural core of dystopia, life is ritualised. The Book as a bridge between generations is analysed. Alexander Pushkin is regarded as a symbol of cultural memory in the future world. There is a similarity of the finales: the end of the world opens an opportunity to start a new life in the renovation of everything.