The article is devoted to the functioning of avant-garde absurdist elements in Ivan Vyrypaev’s piece “Dreams”. The forms of absurdity are analyzed and typologized, and the text elements in which the absurdist code is more or less expressed are emphasized. More attention is paid to the specifics of the character, the images projected into his speech, as well as the general plot outline of the text. The emphasis is placed on displacement, fusion, and tautologization as the main ways of forming an absurdist context. The study examines the absurdist techniques and techniques of creating a text space, such as: metonymy, content redundancy and / or insufficiency, violation of the logic of statements and events, reducing the understanding of the situation to the sphere of feelings, working with the chronotope; there is a gradual transformation under the influence of the postmodern context, namely, the strengthening of the subject's position with the simultaneous exclusion of the possibility of asserting the exclusivity of the character’s position, the consistent leveling of “pure” absurdist forms and their replacement with elements focused on illustrating the postmodern way of organizing space. As a result, the conclusion is made about the realization in I. Vyrypaev’s “Dreams” of the effect of simultaneous development of several aesthetic traditions characteristic of the new drama. In this case, we are talking about the parallel use of avant-garde and postmodern techniques of absurdization.
Reference to article:
Muravyova A. V. Avant-garde traditions in modern Russian drama: the absurdity of Ivan Vyrypaev’s “Dreamsˮ // Ivanovo State University Bulletin. Series «The Humanities». 2021. No.1. P. 28-32.