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Name: The project of the world transformation and the Russian prose of the early 20th century (Bogdanov and Platonov)

Authors: Vasilyev Igor Evgenyevich, Kovtun Natalia Vadimovna, Proskurina Elena Nikolaevna

Institute of History and Archeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation; Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: The paper presents an analysis of the novel «Red Star» by A. Bogdanov and that of the early texts by A. Platonov, marked by utopian discourse. Utopia and anti-utopia are shown to be the metagenre literary trends. Depending on the ideology of the time the texts of these authors can be read either as utopian or as anti-utopian. Special attention in the paper is paid to the links of the said writers’s ideas and images with those typical of the culture of the early 20th century, marked by the pathos of instant transformation of the world and of the natural essence of man.

Keywords: the russian prose of the twentieth century, literary utopia, anti-utopia, a. bogdanov, «red star», a. platonov’s works

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