title: Dystopia in works of Harry Martinson and Andrei Platonov
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metadata.value: Romanovskaja, Irina V.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Abramova, Oksana G.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-09-29T11:39:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-09-29T11:39:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-06
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metadata.value: Romanovskaja I. V., Abramova O. G. Dystopia in works of Harry Martinson and Andrei Platonov. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2022, 19 (2): 291–303. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2022.205 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2022.205
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37976
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper presents a comparative study of two literary works which are basically different in
  their forms of expression: the poem “Aniara” by Harry Martinson, and the novel The Foundation
  Pit by Andrei Platonov. The common ground of the two authors’ literary philosophy is
  emphasized, as well as their common themes and the similarity of ideas, which is determined
  both by the personal experience and the ways of mankind’s evolution in the first half of the
  20th century. The analysis shows that the existence improvement concept lies at the bottom of
  the studied works. Though this concept has reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where the
  initially positive ideas to build a house for the country’s proletarians (Platonov) and to save
  the mankind in the space (Martinson) lead to a negative result: death. While the Platonov’s
  novel is well-known for a wide audience, the poem of the Swedish author is a revelation for
  the majority as an example of post-apocalyptic dystopia written in an elegant poetic language.
  The present article introduces what these two literary works have in common in relation to
  genre (both the poem and the novel represent failed utopia — dystopia) and architectonics.
  The story lines are based on such motifs as motif of traveling, motif of searching for happiness
  and truth, and motif of death, a key-motif for both literary works.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 19; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dystopia
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Martinson
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Aniara
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Platonov
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: The Foundation Pit
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Dystopia in works of Harry Martinson and Andrei Platonov
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metadata.value: Article
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