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Abstract: The object of the study in this article comprises the manifestations of the deconstruction of the socialist realism avia-tion discourse in the literature of traditionalism, reflexive in relation to orthodox Soviet culture. The author focuses on two aspects of this discourse: the mechanisms of constructing the image of the pilot and the peculiarities of the formation of original semiotic spatial models. The research topic covers the deconstruction of the Soviet aviation discourse in the traditionalism of the 1970s–1990s. The aim of this work is to consider the process of deconstruction of the discourse in question based on the material of short prose by V. P. Astafiev (“Tsar-fish”, “Zatesi”). The research methods include the structural-typological method, the method of descriptive poetics, and the method of mythopoetic analysis. As a result of the work, the following ideas were elaborated: the elements of aviation discourse found inside, and not outside the socialist realism context are attributed differently in the texts of the Siberian writer. The image of the Soviet aviator is radically transformed: with external similarity, he can no longer serve as a standard of man and superman, his proximity to the state is profaned, which is one of the manifestations of the destruction of the orthodox Soviet heroic hierarchy. Together with the figure of the pilot, the topos of the airport is desacredized. This indicates the transformation of the mental map, built in the coordinates that are already characteristic of rural prose: the oppositions of “city – village”, “center – periphery” are actualized. Similar oppositions, which take place in the literature of socialist realism, function in traditionalist texts in exactly the opposite way, emphasizing the postcolonial intention of traditionalist writing and the increased interest in the Other, noted in connection with the weakening influence of the canon. Thus, it can be concluded that Astafiev’s short prose reflects the process of deconstruction of early Soviet aviation discourse. The meanings and images fixed in the orthodox axiology and ontology are reversed: the signifier and the signified cease to be equal to each other. The results of this research can be applied in practical univer-sity training while teaching the courses of the history of Russian literature of the twentieth century, the poetics of Russian traditionalist prose, and the prose of V. P. Astafiev.

About the author(s) :

Tatyana A. Zagidulina
Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V. P. Astafyev (Krasnoyarsk, Russia)
Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy named after F. M. Dostoevsky (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1747-0837

Publication Timeline:

Date of receipt: 12.03.2024; date of publication: 24.06.2024

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