{"title":"В поисках симметрии. Андрей Битов и его последний роман","authors":"Ольга Труханова (Olga Trukhanova)","doi":"10.1016/j.ruslit.2022.10.001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper aims to analyze the metanovel narrative strategies in the postmodern literary context, defined by the scientific outcomes of quantum physics. According to them the world is a system of integrated space and time which are mutually complementary. The symmetry of time and space in this sense becomes the groundplan for the structural components of Andrei Bitov’s last novel. Through these components: for instance, echo, mirror, duality, the written and the unwritten, real life in the text and life out of context, physical time and grammatical time etc., we can find out the main course of the narrative and to point out its consistency. The apparent scrappiness performs the purpose to prove the capital importance of the route, of the journey, and not its end, probably non-existent. Following this point of view, hints at other works and authors (from ancient Greek myths to Nabokov) are also meant to share the invisible web of coexistence and persistency of the literary process.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43192,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"RUSSIAN LITERATURE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304347922000953","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, SLAVIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the metanovel narrative strategies in the postmodern literary context, defined by the scientific outcomes of quantum physics. According to them the world is a system of integrated space and time which are mutually complementary. The symmetry of time and space in this sense becomes the groundplan for the structural components of Andrei Bitov’s last novel. Through these components: for instance, echo, mirror, duality, the written and the unwritten, real life in the text and life out of context, physical time and grammatical time etc., we can find out the main course of the narrative and to point out its consistency. The apparent scrappiness performs the purpose to prove the capital importance of the route, of the journey, and not its end, probably non-existent. Following this point of view, hints at other works and authors (from ancient Greek myths to Nabokov) are also meant to share the invisible web of coexistence and persistency of the literary process.
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Russian Literature combines issues devoted to special topics of Russian literature with contributions on related subjects in Croatian, Serbian, Czech, Slovak and Polish literatures. Moreover, several issues each year contain articles on heterogeneous subjects concerning Russian Literature. All methods and viewpoints are welcomed, provided they contribute something new, original or challenging to our understanding of Russian and other Slavic literatures. Russian Literature regularly publishes special issues devoted to: • the historical avant-garde in Russian literature and in the other Slavic literatures • the development of descriptive and theoretical poetics in Russian studies and in studies of other Slavic fields.