RUSSIAN HISTORY AS AN INVENTED TRADITION IN THE PROSE BY VLADIMIR SHAROV

an image of an escape as of a return and an image of an exile as of a traumatic “procession” and “crusade” in the novels “Be Like Children” and “Return to Egypt”

  • Максим Кирчанов
Keywords: Vladimir Sharov, “Be Like Children”, “Return to Egypt”, prose, postmodernism, imagination, Russian history, return, escape, pilgrimage, historical memory

Abstract

The author analyzes the literary heritage of the Russian postmodernist writer Vladimir Sharov in the context of travel images. The article considers novels “Be like children” and “Return to Egypt”. The author believes that the writer actualized in his texts the problems of movement as of a social and cultural journey, like trauma, nostalgia, and forgetting. The real and imaginary travels of characters in the prose by V.Sharov can be described in the categories of absurdity and meaninglessness. Travel images do not actualize spatial migrations, but they visualize contradictions and paradoxes of the development of Russian identity as a deformed one. The author analyzes travels in V. Sharov’s prose as invented cultural traditions. The travel discourse in the texts by V. Sharov became the result of the development of modern Russia that emerged as modern before modern and modern without modern. The author of the article assumes that the travel in V. Sharov’s prose gradually loses its connection with reality, transforming into travel as a construct and travel as memory. The forced travels of his prose characters became imaginary pilgrimages and attempts of the Russian people, regarded as a hostage of Russian history, to escape. The writer imagined Russian history as a cyclical social and cultural journey. The motifs of travel in V. Sharov’s prose are presented in a variety of forms, including a novel in letters, a traditional postmodern novel, and an imitation of hagiographic texts.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Источники
Шаров, В. (2016). Будьте как дети. Москва: АСТ.
Шаров, В. (2015). Возвращение в Египет. Москва: АСТ.
Шаров, В. (2003). Воскрешение Лазаря. Москва: Вагриус.
Шаров, В. (2009). Избранная проза в трех книгах. Кн. 3: До и во время.
Москва: ArsisBooks, 2009.
Шаров, В. (2009a). О «Записных книжках» Андрея Платонова. В Шаров, В.
Избранная проза в трех книгах. Кн. 2: Искушение революцией (русская
верховная власть). Эссе. Москва.: ArsisBook. 55-68.
Шаров, В. (2018). О сырьевых и несырьевых странах (письмо Александру
Эткинду). В Шаров,В. Перекрестное опыление: время, место, люди: Сборник эссе. Москва: ArsisBook. 182-196.
Литература
Антов, П. (2008). Какво иде след постмодернизма: един карамазовски сюжет. В LiterNet No 11 (108). URL: https://liternet.bg/publish11/p_antov/kakvo.htm (дата обращения: 03.03.2020).
Ащеулова, И. (2013). Историческая проза В. Шарова в контексте русской исторической прозы второй половины ХХ – начала XXI в. В Вестник Томского государственного университета. Филология No 1 (21). 80-98.
Ащеулова, И. (2016). Сюжет «второе пришествие Христа» в романах В. Шарова. В Сибирский филологический журнал No 2. 106-113.
Беззубцев-Кондаков, А. (2006). Карать и врачевать. О прозе Владимира Шарова. В Топос. Литературно-философский журнал. URL: https://www.topos.ru/article/4351 (дата обращения: 04.03.2020).
Белкин, Б. (2019). Мне повезло. О встречах с Владимиром Шаровым и его книгами. В Знамя No 4. URL: http://arsisbooks.ru/Reviews/recenziya/428/ (дата обращения: 07.02.2020).
Березин, В. (2018). Философия литературы и время философии. В Культурная инициатива. 4 сентября. URL: http://kultinfo.com/novosti/2741/ (дата обращения: 02.02.2020).
Вачева, А. (2003). Дискурси на модерността: опит за постмодерно разбиране. В Вачева, А., Чобанов, Г. (Съст.). Култура и критика. Ч. III:
Краят на модерността? Варна: LiterNet. 457-479. URL: https://liternet.bg/publish4/avacheva/kritika3/diskursi.htm (дата обращения: 02.02.2020).
Вачева, А. (2004). Литературоведът – между текста и метатекста. В LiterNet No 2 (51). URL: https://liternet.bg/publish4/avacheva/literaturovedyt.htm (дата обращения: 10.03.2020).
Визель, М. (2019). Владимир Шаров всю жизнь писал один мета-роман на одну тему: русская история, которую он воспринимал как историю рода. В Год литературы. URL: https://godliteratury.ru/public-post/repeticiya- vechnoy-zhizni (дата обращения: 02.03.2020).
Димова, М. (2018). Интердискурзивните перформанси на книжевноста. В Современа филологиjа No 1 (1). 111-128.
Иваницкая, Е. (2008). И слепые повели зрячих. В Дружба народов No 11. URL: https://magazines.gorky.media/druzhba/2008/11/i-slepye-poveli-zryachih.html (дата обращения: 02.04.2020.
Иванова, Н. (2018). «Не чувствую себя ни учителем, ни пророком». Памяти Владимира Шарова. В Новая газета No 91, 22 августа. URL: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2018/08/20/77550-ne-chuvstvuyu-sebya-ni- uchitelem-ni-prorokom (дата обращения: 05.02.2020).
Каспэ, И. (2008). Не вря, не ржа, не спася. В Новое литературное обозрение No 5. URL: https://magazines.gorky.media/nlo/2008/5/ne-vrya-ne-rzha-ne- spasya.html (дата обращения: 07.02.2020).
Кірчанаў, М. (2019). Топас руху як пастаяннага вяртання ў прозе рускага і беларускага постмадэрнізму (на прыкладзе тэкстаў Уладзіміра Шарова і Віктара Марціновіча. В Арцямёнак, Г.А. (Рэд.). Беларуская мова і літаратура ў славянскім этнакультурным кантэксце: Матэрыялы ІІІ Рэспубліканскай навукова-практычнай канферэнцыі. Віцебск: ВДУ імя П.М. Машэрава. 166-169.
Котеска, Ј. (2002). Постмодернистички литературни студии. Скопje: Македонска книга.
Котеска, Ј. (2003). Македонско женско писмо. Скопje: Македонска книга. Курицын, В. (2019). След в след. Владимир Шаров. Царство Агамемнона. В Урал No 1. URL: https://magazines.gorky.media/ural/2019/1/sled-v-sled-2.html
(дата обращения: 06.03.2020).
Ќулавкова, К. (1996). Интертекстуалнaта потка на романот Александар и
смртта од Слободан Мицковиќ. В Ќулавкова, К. (Уред.). Потход и исход.
Скопје: Култура. 231-244.
Ќулавкова, К. (2008). Македонската историографска метафикција. В
Црвенковска, Е. (Уред.). Предавањата на XL Семинарот за македонски јазик, литература и култура. Скопје: Универзитет “Св. Кирил и Методиј”. 153-168.
Ќулавкова, К. (2009). Историографската метафикција како метаисториографска фикција: критичко препрочитување на метафикциската парадигма. В Ќулавкова, К. (Уред.). Демонот на
толкувањето. Скопје: МАНУ. 147-166.
Лихина, Н. (2009). Утопический аспект романа В. Шарова «Будьте как дети».
В Вестник РГУ им. И. Канта No 8. 87-90.
Манчев, Б. (1999). Интерпретации на идеологията, идеология на интерпретациите (върху полемиките в българското литературознание). В
Литературна мисъл No 1. https://liternet.bg/publish2/bmanchev/ideologia.htm (дата 25.02.2020).
Манчев, Б. (2003). Модерност и антимодерност: националекзотизъм. В Вачева, А., Чобанов, Г. (Съст.). Култура и критика. Ч. III: Краят на модерността? Варна: LiterNet. 376-416.
Мирзоев, В. (2019). «Все мы умираем детьми». Памяти Владимира Шарова. В Сноб. 7 апреля. URL: https://yandex.ru/turbo/snob.ru/s/entry/175131/ (дата обращения: 24.03.2020).
Мојсиева-Гушева, Ј. (2005). Постмодернизмот во македонската проза. В LiterNet No 8 (69). URL: https://liternet.bg/publish15/ja_mojsieva- gusheva/postmodernizmot.htm (дата обращения: 06.03.2020).
Папков, В. (2014). Бегство в Египет как палиндром (Владимир Шаров. Возвращение в Египет). В Новый мир No 12. URL: https://magazines.gorky.media/novyi_mi/2014/12/begstvo-v-egipet-kak- palindrom-vladimir-sharov-vozvrashhenie-v-egipet.html (дата обращения: 03.03.2020).
Роднянская, И., Костырко, С. (1993). Сор из избы. Вокруг романа В. Шарова «До и во время». В Новый мир No 5. 186-187.
Топоров, В. (2008). Простые ответы. В Взгляд. Деловая газета. 2 февраля. URL: https://vz.ru/columns/2008/%202/2/142025.html (дата обращения: 28.02.2020).
Хасан, И. (2000). Към понятието за постмодернизъм (Послеслов към “Разчленяването на Орфей”). В Литературен вестник No 1. URL: https://liternet.bg/publish1/ihassan/hassan.htm (дата обращения: 26.02.2020).
Шейко-Маленьких, И. (2006). Проблемы поэтики прозы Владимира Шарова. В
Известия Российского государственного педагогического университета
им. А. И. Герцена No 2 (16). 84-88.
Шишкин, М. (2018). Бегун и корабль. В Colta.ru, 15ноября. URL:
https://www.colta.ru/articles/literature/19715-begun-i-korabl (дата обращения:
25.02.2020).
Эпштейн, М. (2018). Летописец Священной истории. В Шаров, В.
Перекрёстное опыление: время, место, люди: Сборник эссе. Москва: ArsisBook. 277-283.
Эпштейн, М. (2018а). «Священная история» потеряла своего летописца. В Культурная инициатива. 4 сентября. URL: http://kultinfo.com/novosti/2741/ (дата обращения: 04.04.2020).
URL: обращения: българският

Barth, J. (1984). The Friday Book. Essays and Other Nonfiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Barthes, R. (2018). The Death of the Author. New York: The Macat Library. Baudrillard, J. (1981). Simulacres et Simulation. Paris: Éditions Galilée.
Baudrillard, J. (1982). A l'ombre des majorités silencieuses ou la fin du social. Paris:
Éditions Collector.
Dyer, R. (2007). Pastiche. New York: Routledge.
Imhof, R. (1986). Contemporary Metafiction. A Poetological Study of Metafiction in
English since 1939. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag.
Jameson, Fr. (1989). Postmodernism and Consumer Society. In Foster, H. (Ed.). The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Post-Modern Culture. Seattle: Bay Press. 111-125. Jameson, Fr. (1991). Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: Duke University Press.
Waugh, P. (1984). Metafiction. The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction. London, New York: Routledge.

References
Antov, P. (2008). Kakvo ide sled postmodernizma: edin karamazovski siuzhet [What comes after postmodernism: a Karamazov plot]. In LiterNet. No. 11 (108). URL: https://liternet.bg/publish11/p_antov/kakvo.htm (accessed March 3, 2020). (In Bulgarian.)
Ashcheulova, I. (2013). V. Istoricheskaia proza V. Sharova v kontekste russkoi istoricheskoi prozy vtoroi poloviny XX – nachala XXI v. [Sharov's historical prose in the context of Russian historical prose of the second half of the 20th – early 21st centuries]. In Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Filologiia [Bulletin of Tomsk State University. Philology]. No. 1 (21). 80-98. (In Russian.)
Ashcheulova, I. (2016). Siuzhet «vtoroe prishestvie Khrista» v romanakh V. Sharova [The plot of the “second coming of Christ” in V. Sharov's novels]. In Sibirskii filologicheskii zhurnal [The Siberian Journal of Philology]. No. 2. 106- 113. (In Russian.)
Bezzubtsev-Kondakov, A. (2006). Karat' i vrachevat'. O proze Vladimira Sharova [Punish and heal. On the prose of Vladimir Sharov]. In Topos. URL: https://www.topos.ru/article/4351 (accessed April 3, 2020). (In Russian.)
Belkin, B. (2019). Mne povezlo. O vstrechakh s Vladimirom Sharovym i ego knigami [I was lucky. About meetings with Vladimir Sharov and his books]. In Znamia [Banner]. No. 4. URL: http://arsisbooks.ru/Reviews/recenziya/428/ (accessed July 2, 2020). (In Russian.)
Berezin, V. (2018). Filosofiia literatury i vremia filosofii [Philosophy of literature and the time of philosophy]. In Kul'turnaia initsiativa [The cultural initiative], September 4. URL: http://kultinfo.com/novosti/2741/ (accessed February 2, 2020). (In Russian.)
Dimova, M. (2018). Interdiskurzivnite performansi na knizhevnosta [The interdisciplinary performance of literature]. In Sovremena filologija [Contemporary Philology]. No. 1 (1). 111-128. (In Macedonian.)
Epstein, M. (2018). Letopisets Sviashchennoi istorii [Chronicler of Sacred History]. In Sharov, V. Perekrestnoe opylenie: vremia, mesto, liudi [Cross-pollination: time, place, people]. Moscow: ArsisBook. 277-283. (In Russian.)
Epstein, M. (2018a). «Sviashchennaia istoriia» poteriala svoego letopistsa [“Sacred History” has lost its chronicler]. In Kul'turnaia initsiativa [The Cultural Initiative], September 4. URL: http://kultinfo.com/novosti/2741/ (accessed April 4, 2020). (In Russian.)
Hassan, I. (2000). Km poniatieto za postmodernizm (Posleslov km “Razchleniavaneto na Orfei”) [To the concept of postmodernism (Afterword to "The Dissection of Orpheus")]. In Literaturen vestnik [Literary Journal] No. 1. URL: https://liternet.bg/publish1/ihassan/hassan.htm (accessed February, 2020). (In Bulgarian.)
Ivanitskaya, E. (2008). I slepye poveli zrjachih [And the blind led the sighted]. In Druzhba narodov [Friendship of the peoples]. No. 11. URL: https://magazines.gorky.media/druzhba/2008/11/i-slepye-poveli-zryachih.html (accessed February 4, 2020). (In Russian.)
Ivanova, N. (2018). «Ne chuvstvuiu sebia ni uchitelem, ni prorokom». Pamiati Vladimira Sharova [“I don't feel like a teacher or a prophet”. In memory of Vladimir Sharov]. In Novaia gazeta [New newspaper]. No. 91. URL: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2018/08/20/77550-ne-chuvstvuyu-sebya-ni- uchitelem-ni-prorokom (accessed February 5, 2020). (In Russian.)
Kaspe, I. (2008). Ne vria, ne rzha, ne spasia [No wonder, no rust, no saving]. In Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New literary review]. No.5. URL: https://magazines.gorky.media/nlo/2008/5/ne-vrya-ne-rzha-ne-spasya.html (accessed February 7, 2020). (In Russian.)
Kirchanov, M. (2019). Topas rukhu iak pastaiannaga viartannia u proze ruskaga і belaruskaga postmadernіzmu (na prykladze tekstau Uladzіmіra Sharova і Vіktara Martsіnovіcha [Topas of the movement as a constant return in the prose of Russian and Belarusian postmodernism (on the example of the texts of Vladimir Sharov and Viktor Martinovich]. In Artyamyonak, G.A. (Ed.). Belaruskaia mova і lіtaratura u slavianskіm etnakul'turnym kantekstse: Materyialy ІІІ Respublіkanskai navukova-praktychnai kanferentsyі [Belarusian language and literature in the Slavic ethnocultural context: Proceedings of the III Republican scientific-practical conference]. Vitebsk: VSU named after P.M. Masherov. 166-169. (In Belarusian.)
Koteska, J. (2002). Postmodernist literary studies [Postmodernistichki literaturni studii]. Skopje: Makedonska kniga. (In Macedonian.)
Koteska, J. (2003). Makedonsko zhensko pismo [Macedonian female writing]. Skopje: Makedonska kniga. (In Macedonian.)
Kuritsyn, V. (2019). Sled v sled. Vladimir Sharov. Tsarstvo Agamemnona [Trace in trail. Vladimir Sharov. Kingdom of Agamemnon]. In Ural [The Urals]. No. 1.
URL: https://magazines.gorky.media/ural/2019/1/sled-v-sled-2.html (accessed
June 6, 2020). (In Russian.)
Kulavkova, K. (1996). Intertekstualnata potka na romanot Aleksandar i smrtta od
Slobodan Mitskoviќ [The intertextual twist of the novel Aleksandar and the death of Slobodan Mickovi]. In Kulavkova, K. (Ed.). Potkhod i iskhod [Income and outcome]. Skopјe: Kultura. 231-244. (In Macedonian.)
Kulavkova, K. (2008). Makedonskata istoriografska metafiktsiјa [Macedonian historiographical metafiction]. In Tsrvenkovska, E. (Ed.). Predavaniata na XL Seminarot za makedonski јazik, literatura i kultura [Lectures at the XL Seminar on Macedonian Language, Literature and Culture]. Skopјe: Univerzitet “Sv. Kiril i Metodiј”. 153-168. (In Macedonian.)
Kulavkova, K. (2009). Istoriografskata metafiktsiјa kako metaistoriografska fiktsiјa: kritichko preprochituvaњe na metafiktsiskata paradigma [Historiographical metafiction as meta-historiographical fiction: a critical re-reading of the metafictional paradigm]. In Kulavkova, K. (Ed.). Demonot na tolkuvan’eto [The demon of interpretation]. Skopјe: Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. 147-166. (In Macedonian.)
Likhina, N. (2009). Utopicheskii aspekt romana V. Sharova «Bud'te kak deti» [The utopian aspect of V. Sharov's novel “Be like children”]. In Vestnik RGU im. I. Kanta [The Bulletin of the Russian State University named after I. Kant]. No. 8. 87-90. (In Russian.)
Manchev, B. (1999). Interpretatsii na ideologiiata, ideologiia na interpretatsiite (verkhu polemikite v bolgarskoto literaturoznanie) [Interpretations on ideology, ideology on interpretation (in the polemic in the Bulgarian literary study)]. In Literaturna misl [Literary thought]. No. 1. URL: https://liternet.bg/publish2/bmanchev/ideologia.htm (accessed February 25, 2020). (In Bulgarian.)
Manchev, B. (2003). Modernost i antimodernost: bolgarskiiat natsionalekzotizm [Modernity and antimodernity: Bulgarian nationalalekzotizm]. In Vacheva, A., Chobanov, G. (Сompls.). Kultura i kritika. Ch. III: Kraiat na modernostta? [Culture and criticism. Part III: Crack for a modernist?]. Varna: LiterNet. 376- 416. (In Bulgarian.)
Mirzoev, V. (2019). «Vse my umiraem det'mi». Pamiati Vladimira Sharova [“We all die as children”. In memory of Vladimir Sharov]. In The Snob, April 7. URL: https://yandex.ru/turbo/snob.ru/s/entry/175131/ (accessed March 24, 2020). (In Russian.)
Mosieva-Gushev, Ј. (2005). Postmodernizmot vo makedonskata proza [Postmodernism in Macedonian prose]. In LiterNet. No. 8 (69). URL: https://liternet.bg/publish15/ja_mojsieva-gusheva/postmodernizmot.htm (accessed June 3, 2020). (In Macedonian.)
Papkov , V . (2014). Begstvo v Egipet kak palindrom (Vladimir Sharov . Vozvrashchenie v Egipet) [Flight to Egypt as a palindrome (Vladimir Sharov. Return to Egypt)]. In Novyi mir [New World]. No.12. URL: https://magazines.gorky.media/novyi_mi/2014/12/begstvo-v-egipet-kak-palindrom-vladimir-sharov-vozvrashhenie-v-egipet.html (accessed Murch 3,
2020). (In Russian.)
Rodnyanskaya, I., Kostyrko, S. (1993). Sor iz izby. Vokrug romana V. Sharova «Doi vo vremia» [Litter from the hut. Around V. Sharov's novel “Before and
During”]. In Novyi mir [New World]. No. 5. 186-187. (In Russian.)
Toporov, V. (2008). Prostye otvety [Simple answers]. In Vzgliad [View]. February 2. URL: https://vz.ru/columns/2008/%202/2/142025.html (accessed February 28, 2020). (In Russian.)
Sheiko-Malen’kikh, I. (2006). Problemy poetiki prozy Vladimira Sharova [Problems of the poetics of Vladimir Sharov's prose]. In Izvestiia Rossiiskogo Gosudarstvennogo Pedagogicheskogo Universiteta im. A. I. Gertsena [Bulletin of the Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen]. No. 2 (16). 84-88. (In Russian.)
Shishkin, M. (2018). Begun i korabl' [Runner and ship]. In Colta.ru. November 15. URL: https://www.colta.ru/articles/literature/19715-begun-i-korabl (accessed February 25, 2020). (In Russian.)
Vacheva, A. (2003). Diskursi na modernostta: opit za postmoderno razbirane [Discourses of modernity: an attempt at postmodern understanding]. In Vacheva, A., Chobanov, G. (Ed.). Culture and criticism. Part III: The end of modernity? Varna: LiterNet. 457-479. URL: https://liternet.bg/publish4/avacheva/kritika3/diskursi.htm (accessed February 2, 2020). (In Bulgarian.)
Vacheva, A. (2004). Literaturovedot – mezhdu teksta i metateksta [Literary critic – between text and metatext]. In LiterNet. No. 2 (51). URL: https://liternet.bg/publish4/avacheva/literaturovedyt.htm (accessed October 3, 2020). (In Bulgarian.)
Wiezel, M. (2019). Vladimir Sharov vsju zhizn' pisal odin meta-roman na odnu temu: russkaja istorija, kotoruju on vosprinimal kak istoriju roda [Vladimir Sharov all his life wrote one meta-novel on one topic: Russian history, which he perceived as the history of a family]. In the Year of Literature. URL: https://godliteratury.ru/public-post/repeticiya-vechnoy-zhizni (accessed February 3, 2020)., J. (1984). The Friday Book. Essays and Other Nonfiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (In Russian.)
Barthes, R. (2018). The Death of the Author. New York: The Macat Library. (In English.)
Baudrillard, J. (1981). Simulacres et Simulation. Paris: Éditions Galilée. (In French.) Baudrillard, J. (1982). A l'ombre des majorités silencieuses ou la fin du social. Paris: Éditions Collector. (In French.)
Dyer, R. (2007). Pastiche. New York: Routledge. (In English.)
Imhof, R. (1986). Contemporary Metafiction. A Poetological Study of Metafiction in English since 1939. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag. (In English.) Jameson, Fr. (1989). Postmodernism and Consumer Society. In Foster, H. (Ed.). The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Post-Modern Culture. Seattle: Bay Press. 111-125. (In English.)
Jameson, Fr. (1991). Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: Duke University Press. (In English.)
Waugh, P. (1984). Metafiction. The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction. London, New York: Routledge. (In English.)
Published
2020-11-07
How to Cite
Кирчанов, М. (2020). RUSSIAN HISTORY AS AN INVENTED TRADITION IN THE PROSE BY VLADIMIR SHAROV. Philological Studies, 18(1), 45-71. Retrieved from https://journals.ukim.mk/index.php/philologicalstudies/article/view/1427
Section
Philosophical-Cultural Problems