I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

contemporary Russian prose, receptive aesthetics, objective reality, subjective reality, Russian postmodernism, intertextual connections, Victor Pelevin

The article raises the problem of  dualism of the artistic space of Victor Pelevin’s novel “Generation ‘P’”, which is represented by subjective and objective reality. The concept “subjective and objective reality” was introduced into the philosophical  circulation by D. Dubrovsky in 1968. The author claims that this concept is characteristic of modern Russian prose. The work clearly illustrates how the city of Moscow and the mass media  (advertising, television, world computer network)  become the personification of the artistic space of the consumer society. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that for the first time the artistic space of the novel is considered from the point of view of the dualism of realities. The author notes that the receptive aesthetics of the novel consists of intertextual connections designed for different levels of perception. The study showed that in the work of the Russian postmodernist V. Pelevin, the artistic space does not consist of one material world, but of television and psychedelic reality. On the border of two realities, Babylonian associations arise in the mind of the protagonist. The structure of the artistic space in the novel is determined by the urban environment. Moscow in the novel absorbs the “Petersburg myth”, the author emphasizes the uneasiness of the urban landscape. The research results are of practical importance and can be used in university courses on the history of modern literature.

Мухамед Талха Наср   – кандидат филологических наук, преподаватель кафедры русского языка, факультет "Аль-Альсун", университет "Айн Шамс", г. Каир, Арабская Республика Египет, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4018-7183, nasertalha04@gmail.com