Modernists and Traditionalists in the Perspective of Fiction Manifestos of the 21st Century

The article deals with the analysis of contemporary prose in terms of literary manifestos (from postmodernists’ declarations to the New Realists and Symposium group). Under conditions of the cultural paradigm breakup, disappointment in the perspective of globalism and loss of the principle of literary centrism by Russian culture, the comparative analysis of manifestos acquires a special urgency; it allows presenting the activities of the key associations and directions with possible clarity and declarative exposure. We acknowledge the historical and typological proximity of the situations of the early 20th and 21st centuries with their cult of manifestos and similar antinomies: Modernism and Traditionalism, Modernism and Realism, the Arty and the Bolsheviks (Radical Realism and New Realism). Concerns about the present situation include secondary nature of some manifestos’ theses, not supported by the actual fiction texts

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