Authors : Tatiana A. Zolotova, Ekaterina A. Plotnikova and Viacheslav A. Pozdeev
Abstract: This study is focused on the number of distinctive features of the works of young prose modern writers. The researchers of the study hold the opinion that the topic of the “Soviet past” is becoming especially popular among modern writers in the context of its interpretation. The output of Ksenia Buksha, the prize-winner of the “National Bestseller” literary award, includes the most significant form of this topic in the context of the works of young writers. Buksha builds up the narration using the transformed version of the model of the so-called “big family”. This model was the basic one in the literary works from the epoch of socialist realism (30-50s of the 20th century). The researchers of this study analyse the text of Buksha’s novel “the “freedom” factory” and come to the conclusion that the writer’s attitude toward the “Soviet past” is ambiguous. She finds the ways to rejoice at the grand achievements in the building of socialism to point the giftedness and ambiguity of her characters. And yet, the general atmosphere of disorder and poverty of Soviet people’s lives, the lie and hypocrisy of the official slogans and some other things stir up the writer’s deepest disapproval.
Tatiana A. Zolotova, Ekaterina A. Plotnikova and Viacheslav A. Pozdeev, 2016. The “Soviet Discourse” in the Works of Young Russian Writers at the Turn of the 21st Century. The Social Sciences, 11: 1903-1908.