POSTMODERNISM IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE

This article examines the phenomenon of Russian literary postmodernism: its chronological scope, key differences from its Western counterpart (its traumatic nature, its reaction to the collapse of the Soviet utopia), and its main aesthetic principles (intertextuality, irony, and demythologization). The author identifies the main trends (Moscow conceptualism, Leningrad metarealism, “other prose”) and key figures (Venedikt Erofeev, Vladimir Sorokin, Viktor Pelevin, Dmitry Prigov, Tatyana Tolstaya). Special attention is given to seminal texts (“Moscow—Petushki,” “Pushkin’s House,” “Chapaev and the Void”) and an analysis of the crisis of postmodernism in the 2000s with the transition to new literary strategies (metamodernism, new sincerity). The material is structured and suitable both for an introduction to the topic and for consolidating knowledge.