THE FUNERAL OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY. A. RUBANOV’S NOVEL ‘THE PATRIOT’ [‘PATRIOT’]
https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2018-1-123-135
Abstract
In her article devoted to The Patriot [Patriot], the novel by the contemporary author A. Rubanov (the last in his literary cycle about the hero of our time, from the 1990s to the 2010s), the critic analyses Rubanov’s signature prose in the context of 40 years of literature, from short sketches and autobiographies to historical generalizations. Zhuchkova notices that, even though the protagonist and the author tend to amalgamate in a symbiotic way in Rubanov’s books, a schism is beginning to show from 2012. While the hero preserves his boyish flair, the author matures. Similarly, musings about the fate of the generation replace the autobiographical focus: for example, The Patriot centers on the character of Znaev, whom the article examines in some detail.
About the Author
A. Zhuchkova
Russian Peoples’ Friendship University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anna Vladimirovna Zhuchkova, Candidate of Philology, literary critic, lecturer at the Russian and Foreign Literature Department of the Philological Faculty
Her academic interests include modern literature, Russian and foreign literature of the 20th century, semantic poetry, psychopoetics. Author of The Magic of O. Mandelstam’s Poetics [Magiya poetiki O. Mandelshtama] (2009), as well as several papers on the aforementioned topics.
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Review
For citations:
Zhuchkova A. THE FUNERAL OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY. A. RUBANOV’S NOVEL ‘THE PATRIOT’ [‘PATRIOT’]. Voprosy literatury. 2018;(1):123-135. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2018-1-123-135
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