The paper aims to introduce research in the field of the literary imagology and text semiotics. It focuses on the analysis of the creation of “autoimage”, or rather a self-image, and “hereroimage”, or a counter-mage, the image of otherness, as a means of shaping national identity, by interpreting the artistic texts written by the Czech writer Jáchym Topol and the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin. It pays attention particularly to their novels from the first decade of the 21st century. The texts will be compared in a broader context of social discourse. Moreover, it will address the issue of the disproportion between the intensity of attention of one nation to another (Czech-Russian and Russian-Czech) and the differences in the perception of cultural distance.
The article brings an analysis of Dmitry Glukhovsky’s science-fiction writing from the perspective of realistic motifs and the writer’s striving for realism. In his novels and short stories the writer touches upon real problems of the contemporary Russian society: helplessness of an ordinary man in the face of the system, corruption, censorship, falsified election results, iniquity, impunity. Glukhovsky brings up such issues in his Tales about the Motherland and his novels Futu.re, Metro 2035, thus reaching beyond science-fiction. The same problems become the focus of his attention in his latest, realistic novel Text.
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В статье проведен анализ научно-фантастических произведений Дмитрия Глуховского с точки зрения наличия реалистических мотивов и стремления писателя к реализму. В своих романах и рассказах Глуховский затрагивает настоящие проблемы современного российского общества: бесправие обычного человека перед системой, коррупция, цензура, фальсифицированные выборы, беззаконие, безнаказанность. Пытаясь показать вышеуказанные вопросы, в особенности в Рассказах о родине, романах Будущее и Метро 2035, Глуховский выходит за пределы фантастики. К этим, все еще актуальным, проблемам возвращается писатель и в его последнем, на этот раз реалистическом, романе Текст.
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