Political Discourse and Artistic Fiction in Utopian Reality Representation

In Russian and Western literary studies, the peculiarity of Russian culture is often considered through \nthe prism of Utopia. This article discusses the formation of an utopian metagenre in Russian fiction, \ntracing a change in emphasis from the political discourse to artistic means, and, conversely, archetypes \nthat distinguish utopian world-modelling in different cultural epochs. Perhaps there is no better term \nthan “Utopia” to characterize modern literature, where the avant-garde Utopias anticipate global \ncommunist Utopia that was formalized in artistic creativity through the theory of socialist realism, \nwhich in the 1950–1960s was replaced by retrospective Utopia of “the villagers” in the diversity \nof author’s variants and technocratic Utopias of the “youth prose”. In this paradigm the place of \npostmodernism as a set of techniques used for opposing Utopian intentions is determined by the role \nof anti-Utopia

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