Published : 2024-11-20

The Transitional Generation of the Dissolution of the USSR in the Novel by Elena Chizhova The Planet of Mushrooms

Elżbieta Tyszkowska-Kasprzak

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8297-0630

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of the transitional generation during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, depicted in Elena Chizhova’s novel The Planet of Mushrooms. The analysis of the novel focuses on three characters, representatives of the transitional generation living between the old system and the new one that replaced it. Young people born and raised in Soviet times, as Chizhova notes, did not express the same values even before this historic event. The consequences of this diversity are presented in the adult life of the heroes, which fell on the period of transformation in Russia. Chizhova depicts three types of attitude towards the past era: a rebel, an ultra-radical with a simplified black-and-white thinking; a category of people who resist the past in action and the third type is an indecisive, helpless person, unable to make any changes in the world passed on to them by the older.

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modern Russian prose, Elena Chizhova, generation, dissolution of the USSR



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Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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