Смех Протея. Феномен гротескного сознания

The book by the philologist and culturologist Elena Menshikova represents the "grotesque consciousness" as a natural phenomenon for Soviet culture, the distinctive feature of which is expressed in the dichotomy of the tragic and the comic. The study provides a fundamentally different literary and cultural-philosophical interpretation of such "significant" works of the 20th century as "Heart of a Dog" by M. Bulgakov, "Envy" by Y. Olesha, "Chevengur" by A. Platonov, written in a crisis, unstable time, depicting the moment transition to a new world of unsettled relationships, a change in the hierarchical scale of values. The hypothetical model is tested by a conceptual and meaningful analysis of texts, diary and epistolary author's testimonies, is tested in the analysis of critical interpretations and comments of the 20s and 90s, compared with the largest philosophical concepts (existentialism, the philosophy of instability) and phenomenological discoveries (carnival, pitch-black world, topos of foolishness, antiworld) of the 20th century.
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