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The main aim of this article is to present the reception of the latest Russian drama notonly among the popular readers, but also among professionals. Conducted researchers proveclearly that the interest towards Russian drama has been growing recently, despite the factthat Polish readers become familiar with it through the theatre.The exemplification of presented tendencies is the oeuvre of Vladimir Sorokin ―postmodernist and scandal, finally appreciated and awarded in Russia, popular in Poland formany years. He has also gained a recognition in the word of theatre, where his controversial,but reflective dramas are being referred more and more often.
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The article discusses Vladimir Sorokin’s novel Manaraga as a metafictional statement concerning the problem of the literary canon. The proposed interpretation places the novel in the post-ironic thinking, within which the value of high culture is still in force.
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In his latest novel Manaraga (2017) Sorokin comments on one of the most significant problems of modern times – the results of the anticipated death of the printed book as well as the related opposition between the original and the copy. The biggest problem, as the author suggests, is not the form of the already published literary classics but the absence of new classics, which can embrace ideas capable of awaking the humankind from its zest for comfort and motivating people for constructive progress.
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The article is devoted to particular issues of reception of Russian postmodern literature in Poland on examples of works by Vladimir Sorokin, Viktor Yerofeyev and Viktor Pelevin. The article discusses the successive stages of reception of prose and essays by these three writers. The aim of the paper is to define also literary and non-literary reasons for the popularity of the postmodernists in Poland.
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The paper aims at analyzing the importance of national identity in the selected works by Vladimir Sorokin and Viktor Pelevin. Both writers place significant emphasis on presenting the possible consequences of the present social changes. Pelevin predicts the unification of the world’s biggest countries into a homogenous structure based on people’s recognition. On the other hand, Sorokin forecasts the division of the present states into smaller structures, which will need to (re)construct their own identity. The interpretation is complemented with relevant ideas of Hegel and Fukuyama.
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The Feast (Пир, 2001) by Vladimir Sorokin is considered to be the culmination of the second period of the author’s literary work, and the one that presages his break up with the fundamental principles of postmodernism and conceptualism. The Feast consists of thirteen novels, all of which more or less literally revolve around the theme of eating. Sorokin’s search for the taste of life based on the opposition body/flesh–the disincarnate, culture–pseudoculture, manifests his critique of the superficiality of modern societies, in which the collective pursuit of sensuality together with widespread accessibility of all sorts of material goods are signs of inner self-destruction. Sorokin’s “taste of death,” expressed principally in the display of various forms of cannibalism, prefigures the advent of afuture “taste of life” — free from taboo, illusion and prejudice.
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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.
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The article focuses on the transgressive aspect of selected images of carnal love in the novel Голубое сало (Blue Lard) by Vladimir Sorokin. It is claimed that the contro-versial, hyper-naturalistic representations of sexuality can be perceived as materializa-tion of discourses (carnalization, as Mark Lipovetsky suggests). The main structures of power examined in the novel are totalitarian regime and literary tradition. By using the trope of defamiliarization and lowering the pathos of the two great discourses of Russian culture, Sorokin allows the reader to distance himself from their influence and thus extend the autonomy of thinking.
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“The body of death” (on the basis of selected worksby Vladimir Sorokin) One of the outstanding characteristics of Vladimir Sorokin’s works is the permanent presence of Thanatos motifs. The structure of Sorokin’s pictures of death (both executed and experienced) is subordinated to the logic of the process of going beyond the word-body opposition. Consequently, death in Sorokin’s prose is always deprived of its proper dignity. Moreover, it is shown as a senseless and absurd. The conscious emphasis on physicality, understood as the expression of the desire to overcome the word-body opposition, causes the necessary presence of means which are typical of horror films. This strategy can be observed within the whole oeuvre of the author, however with varied intensity as in the recent works Sorokin places much lesser emphasis on the display of human physicality in the face of death.
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„Тело смерти” (на примере избранных произведений Владимира Сорокина) Одной из опознавательных черт творчества Владимира Сорокона является постоянное присутствие танатологических мотивов. Структура сорокинских образов смерти (как причиняемой, так и испытываемой) подчинена процессу преодоления. В результате смерть у Сорокина всегда лишена должного достоинства и показана как бессмысленная и абсурдная. Сознательный нажим на телесность как способ преодоления оппозиции слово–тело генерирует между другими присутствие приемов присущих формуле фильма ужасов. Эту стратегию можно заметить в целом творчестве автора, хотя с разной интенсивностью, так как в последний период творчества Сорокин сравнительно меньше внимания посвящает описанию физиологических процессов перед смертью.
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The present paper aims at presenting the ambiguity of spare time and service in Vladimir Sorokin’s Day of the Oprichnik in the context of the fictional totalitarian system of the New Middle Ages and the historical atrocity of the Nazi and Soviet history. The proposed interpretation has been based on Giorgio Agamben’s reflections on the individual’s status under the exceptional circumstances of an extremely oppressive regime. The analysis has led the author to conclude the imminent and omnipresent blurring and overlapping of the intimate and the public in Sorokin’s book. Moreover, Day of the Oprichnik may be seen as a rich universe of intertextual references interweaving into a complex picture of a human being disappearing in the uniform crowd of state officers.
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The paper is an attempt to interpret the metaliterary aspect of Vladimir Sorokin’s novel titled Manaraga. Thorough analysis of the text has revealed the postmodern understanding of literary activity as the pivotal element of Sorokin’s narration. Thus, the narrator along with his words do not represent reality but create it in an almost divine manner. The interpretation also suggests that the novel has an underlying message seeping from its every page – cognition and reading are inextricably connected. Moreover, deep cognition needs a plurality of ideas/views/points of view, which is present only in a world in which books are read and not consumed.
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