The article discusses the issues (the image of contemporary Siberia, the post-Soviet village, “little man” of our time) and the poetics of Senchin’s autobiographical trilogy and novels: "The Yeltyshevs, The Information, What do You Want?" in the context of interpretation of the term “new realism”. The article focuses on the relationship between reality and fiction, reality and language, biographical fact and its literary articulation, contemporary realization of category of typicality and representativeness. The problems described by Senchin were considered with regard to the literary tradition of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially the so-called “rural prose”.
The article presents the analysis of the satirical works of J. Polakov: Парижская любовь Кости Гуманкова, Демгородок, Козлёнок в молоке in which the author laughs at the Soviet and the post-Soviet reality, especially pseudodemocracy and moral corruption in the literary circles. Polakov refers to achievements of the classical satire and in some way expands the possibilities of satirical depiction by using some solutions from the popular literature (anecdotes, sensational and romance themes).