Literary criticism

The article analyzes the category of space in Andrey Platonov’s world as multilevel phenomenon. It describes philosophical characteristics of every space level, reveals the significant connections with the category of time, and offers the interpretation of the existential meaning of these categories. 

The contemporary Russian literature is a complex mixture of separate sub-literatures, each having its own authors and its own devoted readers. We witness ubiquitous presence of readers’ ‘deceived expectations’ device, as regards traditional ideas of genres and forms. The marginal genres often appear on the borderline between literature and journalism. Among the productive models are TVconfession; print media genre of women review; specific combinations of these two.

The latest novel by V. Pelevin is looked into а$ а text centered оп е language, as demonstrated by examination of plot, motive structure, key metaphors and style of the novel. The parallels are suggested between Pelevin's idea of the place аnd function of the language аnd the twentieth-century language philosophy, as well as post-structuralist language concepts. 

The article substantiates the necessity оn addressing obituaries and asserts the importance of obituaries, memoirs and biographical publications that consolidated people of different esthetic and literary critical persuasions around the пате of М. Е. Saltykov-Shchedrin.