Феномен поколений в русской и венгерской литературной практике XX–XXI веков

Yulia V. Matveeva, DrHab (Literary Criticism), Professor of the Ural Federal University named after V.L the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin (Yekaterinburg, Russia).

E-mail: julia-matveeva@yndex.ru

Anna M. Menshchikova, PhD (Literary Studies), Senior Lecturer, Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg, Russia).

E-mail: menanman@inbox.ru

Marina N. Moseikina, DrHab (History), Professor of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (Moscow, Russia).

E-mail: moseykina-mn@rudn.ru

Elena N. Proskurina, DrHab (Literary Criticism), Chief Research Fellow, Institute of Philology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia).

E-mail: motive@philology.nsc.ru

Ildikó Regéczi, DrHab (Literary and Cultural Studies), Associate Professor, Institute of Slavic Studies, Debrecen University (Debrecen, Hungary). E-mail: iregeczi@yahoo.com

Yulia A. Rusina, PhD (History), Associate Professor, Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg, Russia).

E-mail: iulia.rusina@urfu.ru

Erzsébet Schiller, PhD (Literary Criticism), Associate Professor, Eötvös Loránd University (Szombathely, Hungary).

E-mail: schillererzsebet@hotmail.com

Elena G. Serebryakova, DrHab (Cultural Studies), Associate Professor, Voronezh State University (Voronezh, Russia).

E-mail: serebrjakova@phipsy.vsu.ru

Tatyana A. Snigireva, DrHab (Literary Criticism), Professor, Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg, Russia).

E-mail: tas0905@rambler.ru

Dmitry V. Spiridonov, PhD (Literary Criticism), Associate Professor, Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg, Russia).

E-mail: dmitry.spiridonov@urfu.ru

Tünde Szabó, DrHab (Literary Criticism), Associate Professor, University of Pécs (Pécs, Hungary).

E-mail: sztundel512@gmail.com

Alina A. Urazbekova, Leading Expert, Representative Office of Rossotrudnichestvo in Hungary, Russian Center for Science and Culture in Budapest (Budapest, Hungary).

E-mail: alina.urazbekova@yandex.ru

Maria A. Vasilyeva, PhD (Literary Criticism), Scientific Secretary, Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad (Moscow, Russia).

E-mail: marijavasil@mail.ru

Oxana A. Yakimenko, Senior Lecturer, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (St. Petersburg, Russia).

E-mail: oxana.yakimenko@gmail.com

Summary

The monograph presents a multifaceted study of the identity and inter-generational dynamics captured in Russian and Hungarian literary traditions at different formal and semantic levels. The socio-cultural concept of generation as a group of people intellectually brought up and living at the same time emerged at the turn of the 18^th-19^th centuries and has been steadily developing since then. The related notion of a “generational mentality” became popular in the 20^th century which was also the period of unprecedented social and political change. It was at this time that the “generation” has come to denote a certain psychological and biographical outlook of people with similar experience and, at the same time, a measure of contemporary history. Since then, the generational theory was embraced by the humanities as a means to revise and reconsider political, cultural, and economical processes. It is exactly the same perspective that has brought together the works of Russian and Hungarian literary scholars, linguists, anthropologists, and historians to analyze a variety of literary, documentary, autobiographical, and journalistic sources in focusing on the following issues:

– reconstructing the emotional, ideological, aesthetic, and ethical dispositions of a generation through close reading and interpretation of the literary heritage it has created

– conceptualization of the inter- and intra-generational dialogue as captured in written texts

– investigation into the relationship of individual, collective, and social identities within one generation.

Juxtaposing the Russian and Hungarian culture paradigms across the generational timescale, this collective study admits their compatibility that, eventually, inspires the reader to draw parallels between them, building a “common” generational framework that is geographically unbound though temporarily limited.