Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School, Moscow, Russia, yakusheva.g@inbox.ru
The beginning of the 20th century gave the world the so-called «lost generation» as a result of World War I (E.M. Remark, E. Hemingway, etc.). World War II gave birth to the heroic generation that resisted fascism (K.M. Simonov, V.P. Astafiev, G. Jak. Baclanov, J.-P. Sartre, A. Camus, etc.). The mid-20th century USA saw the formation of the «beat generation» (J. Kerouak, etc.), that was shocked by the promulgation of the destructive force of the A-bomb (atomic energy) and unsuccessfully attempted to escape from the civilization into sex, drugs and Zen Buddhism. The last decades of the 20th century and the first decade of the present century bred the «embarrassed generation» – young people full of vitality but with no comprehension of how to apply it. Hence the immersion in detective stories, thrillers, and he complex world of fantasy, the diligent reanimation of religious world outlook, shocking displays of hedonism, a fanatical aspiration to shake the foundations of the world and change it and many other manifestations that testify to the global crisis of the true «faith, hope and love» (J.R. Tolkien, Ken Kisi, S. King, A. Burdgess, O. Pahmuk, W. Makanin, L. Petrushevskaya, V. Pelevin, T. Tolstaya, Vict. Jerofeev, Zahar Prilepin, Ed. Limonov etc.).
the age of postmodernism; embarrassed generation; the world literature; the young man; the crisis of the humanistic civilization; the search of support
Download textFor citing: Jakusheva G.V. Embarrassed generation: the young man of the contemporary literature in the search of support // Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Мoscow, 2019. Vol. 3(38): Lozinskaya, E. (ed.) A human being in the time and space of culture, pp. 187-196. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2019.03.00