Your shopping cart is empty.
Log in

A Month in Dachau: Descent into Paradise. Vladimir Sorokin as a Metarelativist

P.E. Spivakovsky
$2.50

 

https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.6-18.066

 

Spivakovsky Pavel Evseevich,

Ph.D. Associate Professor of Lomonosov Moscow State University,
Philological Faculty,
Department of Contemporary Russian Literature and Modern Literary Process

e-mail: p.e.spiwakowsky@gmail.com

 

This article proposes new approaches to the creativity of Vladimir Sorokin. The well-known story A Month in Dachau is analyzed and the proximity of its poetics to the principles of the metarelativism combining in deliberately contradictory unity the relativistic beginning and “finalizing,” auctorial intensions is shown. Genesis and the key opportunities of metarelativist poetics are revealed. It is shown that the traditional postmodernist optics by means of which Sorokin’s creativity are usually considered, prevents scholars from research of many important aspects in writer’s fiction. The metarelativism is considered as an element of metamodernist poetics of Sorokin, which remains connected to postmodernism, but at the same time removing a set of a postmodernist theoretical ban and restrictions. The ratio of binary and ternary ethical oppositions is in a new way comprehended also. In the story A Month in Dachau mirror transformation of classical topos of travel from a hell through a purgatory to paradise is revealed: in this work the hell and paradise are functionally interchanged the position, and the role of a purgatory is carried out by chambers of a Nazi concentration camp of Dachau, used for training of the character for future superhuman transformation. The representation of a metaphorical cannibalism which in the story is comprehended as the tool for radical transformation of a human nature and familiarizing with Nazi anti-human (superhuman) system of thinking and mentality is examined in details. In the tragic final of the story the moving beyond ternarity is revealed which is related to suicidal but inevitable for the protagonist’s breakup with inhuman paradise which was desired for him before. The articles shows how metarelativist freedom lets feel paradoxical depth and tragic sense of the story.

Keywords: A Month in Dachau, Vladimir Sorokin, metarelativism, metamodernism, tragic.

 

References

  1. Lotman Iu.M. Rol’ dual’nykh modelei v dinamike russkoi kul’tury (do kontsa XVIII veka) / Istoriia i tipologiia russkoi kul’tury. St. Petersburg: Iskusstvo–SPb, 2002. S. 88–116.
  2. Lotman Iu.M. O russkoi literature klassicheskogo perioda (vvodnye zamechaniia) / O russkoi literature. Stat’i i issledovaniia (1958–1993). St. Petersburg: Iskusstvo–SPb, 1997. S. 594–604.
  3. Lermontov M.Iu. Soch.: v 6 t. Moscow; Leningrad: Izd vo AN SSSR, 1955. T. 4.
  4. Spivakovsky P.E. Romanticheskie zmei v poeme “Mtsyri” // Pravoslavie i mir. 2014. 9 iiunia. URL: https://www.pravmir.ru/pavel-spivakovskiy-romanticheskie-zmei-v-poeme-mt... (dostup: 10.08.2018).
  5. Sorokin V.G. Sobr. soch.: v 3 t. Moscow: Ad Marginem, 2002. T. 1–3.
  6. Poluboiarinova L.N. Leopol’d fon Zakher-Mazokh i Vladimir Sorokin // Vestn. SPbGU. Ser. 9. Filologiia. Vostokovedenie. Zhurnalistika. 2004. Vyp. 3/4. S. 3–11.
  7. Sorokin V.G. “Nasilie nad chelovekom — eto fenomen, kotoryi vsegda menia pritiagival” / besedu vela T. Voskovskaia // Russkii zhurn. 1998. Apr. URL: http://old.russ.ru/journal/inie/98-04-03/voskov.htm (dostup: 10.08.2018).
  8. Sorokin V.G. Samoe skuchnoe — eto zdorovye pisateli / besedu vel S. Shapoval // Stolitsa. 1994. Okt. No. 42. S. 43–45.
  9. Sorokin V.G. Luchshe sobaki druga net // VLDMR SRKN: ofitsial’nyi sait Vladimira Sorokina. 2006. 11 sent. URL: http://srkn.ru/interview/suranova.shtml (dostup: 10.08.2018).
  10. Solzhenitsyn A.I. Sobr. soch.: v 30 t. Moscow: Vremia, 2006– .
  11. Sorokin V.G. “V kul’ture dlia menia net tabu” / besedu vel S. Shapoval / Sorokin V.G. Sobr. soch.: v 2 t. Moscow: Ad Marginem, 1998. T. 1. S. 7–20.
  12. Lotman Iu.M. Pushkin. St. Petersburg.: Iskusstvo–SPB, 2003.
  13. Spivakovsky P.E. Problema reliativizma: Solzhenitsyn, Chekhov, Dostoevskii i poisk istiny / Zhizn’ i tvorchestvo Aleksandra Solzhenitsyna: na puti k “Krasnomu Kolesu”: Materialy mezhdunar. nauch. konferentsii. Moskva, 7–9 dekabria 2011 g. M.: Russkii put’, 2013. S. 287–293.
  14. Spivakovsky P.E. Polifoniia u F.M. Dostoevskogo i A.I. Solzhenitsyna // Solzhenitsynskie tetradi: materialy i issledovaniia: Al’manakh. M.: Russkii put’, 2014. Vyp. 3. S. 51–63.
  15. Bakhtin M.M. Sobr. soch.: v 7 t. M.: Rus. slovari: Iazyki slavianskoi kul’tury, 2002. T. 6.
  16. Lipovetsky M., Sandomirskaia I. Kak ne “zavershit’” Bakhtina?: Perepiska iz dvukh elektronnykh uglov // Novoe lit. obozrenie. 2006. No. 79. S. 7–38.
  17. Lipovetsky M.N. Paralogii: transformatsii (post)modernistskogo diskursa v kul’ture 1920–2000-kh godov. M.: Novoe lit. obozrenie, 2008.
  18. Meerson O. Nabokov — apologet: zashchita Luzhina ili zashchita Dostoevskogo? / Dostoevskii i XX vek: v 2 t. Moscow: IMLI RAN, 2007. T. 1. S. 358–381.
  19. Vetlovskaya V.E. Roman F.M. Dostoevskogo “Brat’ia Karamazovy”. SPb.: Pushkinskii Dom, 2007.
  20. Kozhinov V.V. Razmyshleniia o russkoi literature. M.: Sovremennik, 1991.
  21. Dostoevsky F.M. Poln. sobr. soch.: v 30 t. Leningrad: Nauka, 1972–1990. T. 1–30.
  22. Pushkin A.S. Poln. sobr. soch.: v 17 (19) t. Moscow: Voskresenie, 1994–1997. T. 1–19.
  23. Zamyatin E.I. Sobr. soch.: v 5 t. Moscow: Russkaia kniga, 2003. T. 2.
  24. Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth After Postmodernism / ed. by R. van den Akker, A. Gibbons, T. Vermeulen. London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017.
  25. Spivakovsky P.E. Metamodernizm: kontury glubiny. Vestn. Mosk. un-ta. Ser. 9. Filologiia. 2018. No. 4. S. 196–211.
  26. Deutschmann P. Dialog tekstov i pytka: “Mesiats v Dakhau” Vladimira Sorokina / per. s nem. I. Urupina / “Eto prosto bukvy na bumage…”: Vladimir Sorokin: posle literatury. M.: Novoe lit. obozrenie, 2018. S. 389–411.
  27. Deutschmann P. Dialog der Texte und Folter. Vladimir Sorokins “Mesjac v Dachau” / Romantik – Moderne – Postmoderne: Beiträge zum ersten Kolloquium des Jungen Forums Slawistische Literaturwissenschaft, Hamburg 1996. Frankfurt a/M.: Peter Lang, 1998. S. 324–351.
  28. Sorokin V.G. Tekst kak narkotik / besedu vela T. Rasskazova // Sorokin V.G. Sb. rasskazov. Moscow: Russlit, 1992. S. 119–126.
  29. Sorokin V.G. Mea culpa? // Nezavisimaia gaz. 2005. 14 apr. No. 13. S. 5.
  30. Kalinin I.A. Vladimir Sorokin: u-topos iazyka i preodolenie literatury / “Eto prosto bukvy na bumage…”: Vladimir Sorokin: posle literatury. Moscow: Novoe lit. obozrenie, 2018. S. 122–145.
  31. Sorokin V.G. Proshchai, kontseptualizm! // Itogi. 2002. 18 marta. No. 11. URL: http://www.itogi.ru/archive/2002/11/94751.html (dostup: 10.08.2018).
  32. Vermeulen T., Akker R. van den. Notes on Metamodernism // Journal of Aesthetics & Culture. 2010. Vol. 2. URL: http://www.emerymartin.net/FE503/Week10/Notes%20on%20Metamodernism.pdf (dostup: 10.08.2018).
  33. Sorokin V.G. Mesiats v Dakhau // Segodnia. 1994. 22 ianv. No. 13. S. 13.
  34. Sorokin V.G. Mesiats v Dakhau. B.m., 1992.
  35. Bukharev F. Tri pis’ma k N.V. Gogoliu, pisannye v 1848 godu. St. Petersburg: tipografiia Morskogo ministerstva, 1860.
  36. Sedakova O.A. Mezhdu naukoi i poeziei. Ch. 1 / besedu vela L.F. Borusiak // Polit.ru. 2010. 24 marta. URL: http://polit.ru/article/2010/03/24/sedakova / (aktualizatsiia: 10.08.2018).
  37. Turbin V.N. Poetika romana Pushkina “Evgenii Onegin”. M.: Izd-vo Mosk. un-ta, 1996.
  38. Nepomnyashchiy V.S. Da vedaiut potomki pravoslavnykh: Pushkin. Rossiia. My. Moscow: Sestrichestvo vo imia prepodobnoi muchenitsy Velikoi kniagini Elizavety, 2001.
  39. Mayakovsky V.V. Sobr. soch: v 13 t. Moscow: GIKhL, 1958. T. 11.
  40. Solzhenitsyn A.I. Publitsistika: v 3 t. Iaroslavl’: Verkhne-Volzhskoe knizhnoe izd-vo, 1995. T. 1.
  41. Alaniz J. The Writer’s Speech: Stuttering, Glossolalia and the Body in Sorokin’s “A Month in Dachau” / Vladimir Sorokin’s Languages. Bergen: University of Bergen, 2013. P. 209–229.
  42. Sorokin V.G. Zaplyv: Rannie rasskazy i povesti. Moscow: Astrel’: AST: Khranitel’, 2008.
  43. Platt K.M.F. Postmodernizm – eto ne problema, ili “Vstan’ na koleni i molis’ / nas bol’she ne obmanut” / per. s angl. S. Ermakova // Novoe lit. obozrenie. 2018. No. 151. S. 279–282.
  44. Akhmatova A.A. Sobr. soch.: v 6 t. Moscow: Ellis Lak, 1998. T. 1.
  45. Tsvetaeva M.I. Sobr. soch.: v 7 t. Moscow: Ellis Lak, 1994. T. 1.
  46. Graf A. Putevka v psikhoanaliz. “Mesiats v Dakhau” Vladimira Sorokina // Uchenye zapiski Kazanskogo un-ta. Ser. Gumanitarnye nauki. 2006. T. 148, kn. 3. S. 223–231.
  47. Ikramov K.A. Primer sobstvennyi. Tragediia zataennogo styda / Kamil Ikramov i o nem: sb. Moscow: Dom-muzei M. Tsvetaevoi, 2003. S. 36–62.
  48. Vladimir Sorokin v Rige. 2008. Iiun’. URL: https://pribalt.info/abc.php?month=6&news=246 (dostup: 10.08.2018).
© Vestnik Vysshey Shkoly (High School Herald) 2008—2024