Феномен поколений в русской и венгерской литературной практике ХХ-ХХI веков : монография

Abstract

В монографии представлен опыт многоаспектного изучения литературных практик русской и венгерской культуры, в которых нашли отражение на разном формально-содержательном уровне самосознание и диалог поколений. Рассматриваются проблемы диалога разных поколений и диалога разных участников одного и того же поколения, показано соотношение индивидуальной, групповой и социальной идентичности в пределах границ одного поколения. Книга адресована всем, кто интересуется историей, русской и венгерской литературой XX-XXI веков.

The monograph presents a multifaceted study of the identity and inter-generational dynamics captured in Russian and Hungarian literary traditions at different formal and semantic levels. The socio-cultural concept of a generation as a group of people intellectually brought up and living at the same time emerged at the turn of the 18th–19th centuries and has been steadily developing since then. The related notion of a “generational mentality” became popular in the 20th century which was also the period of unprecedented social and political change. It was at this time that the “generation” has come to denote a certain psychological and biographical outlook of people with similar experience and, at the same time, a measure of contemporary history. Since then, the generational theory was embraced by the humanities as a means to revise and reconsider political, cultural, and economical processes. It is exactly the same perspective that has brought together the works of Russian and Hungarian literary scholars, linguists, anthropologists, and historians to analyze a variety of literary, documentary, autobiographical, and journalistic sources in focusing on the following issues: - reconstructing the emotional, ideological, aesthetic, and ethical dispositions of a generation through close reading and interpretation of the literary heritage it has created - conceptualization of the inter- and intra-generational dialogue of as captured in written texts - investigation into the relationship of individual, collective, and social identities within one generation. Juxtaposing the Russian and Hungarian culture paradigms across the generational timescale, this collective study admits their compatibility that, eventually, inspires the reader to draw parallels between them, building a “common” generational framework that is geographically unbound though temporarily limited.