Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V.P. Astafiev, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, nkovtun@mail.ru
The article is devoted to the analysis of the image of the Book in prose of the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: from the story Sonechka by L. Ulitskaya to the novels The Librarian by M. Elizarov and GenAcid by Vs. Benigsen. The literary centrism of Russian culture has become today the most important problem of literature itself, striving to reflect its role in a changing world. From a tool of selfknowledge, the book turns into a way of suppressing personality, closes in on political discourse, which turns into apocalyptic consequences. The novel The Slynx, whose plot is built as the initiation of a “naked person” into the world of plastic images, culture, alienates, profanes the most important ideas that hold national history together, however, destroying the myths of the past, the author retains faith in the potential of the language itself. The myth of language has not been destroyed: “great and mighty” it is alive and active.
“a naked person”; the image of the Book; The Slynx; The Librarian by M. Elizarov; GenAcid by Vs. Benigsen
Download textFor citing: Kovtun N.V. (2022). “A naked person” and the power of the Book: the variations of the Outcome (the novel The Slynx by T. Tolstaya). Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 3(51): Power of literature – writer and authorities, pp. 102-125. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2022.03.06