Introduction. German Sadulaev as a symptom of the 2010s: about the novel "Ivan Auslander". The conflict formula: about Rudyard Kipling story "Lispet" -- Ghost as an artist: about Oscar Wilde's novel "The Canterville Ghost" -- Colony, genre and word: about Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness" -- Chaos or order? About James Joyce's novel Ulysses (chapter of Lestrigone) -- What is a person? About Virginia Woolf's novel "On the Lighthouse" -- Inspiration formula: about Thomas Sterns Eliot's poem "The Waste Land" -- Playing with ancient tragedy: about William Golding's novel "Lord of the Flies". USA. Smile cheshire cat: about the tales of Jerome David Salinger -- The inexpressibility of a nightmare: about the stories of Ambrose Beers -- Kill Orpheus: about Henry James' novella "The Aspern Papers" -- Story in detail: about Sherwood Anderson's story "Hands" -- Collect America: about William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" -- Metamorphoses of the imagination: about John Updike's novel "Centaur" -- Peering into the void: about the tale of Henry Miller "Insomnia, or The Devil at Large". Russia: modernity. Pilgrimage or metatext? About Mikhail Elizarov's story "Heat" -- Tragedy of instinct: about Roman Senchin's story "Mowing" -- Compositional symmetry: about Valeriĭ Aĭrapeti︠a︡n's story "Childhood" -- Neoesthetism and literary play: about the vignettes of Aleksandr Zholkovskiĭ -- Theater of emigration and post-apocalypse: about Andreĭ Ivanov's novel "Harbin Moths" -- German Sadulaev as a symptom of the 2010s: about the novel "Ivan Auslander".
Summary:
In this book is the first meeting of Andreĭ Astvat︠s︡aturov the prose writer with Andreĭ Astvat︠s︡aturov the philologist. In this book of essays "Chaos and Symmetry", Astvat︠s︡aturov, as befits a philologist, is a sophisticated researcher and connoisseur of literature: classical Anglo-American and modern Russian. He will explain why in Oscar Wilde's The Canterville ghost" the ghost is an artist, how William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" echoes ancient tragedy, and why Henry Miller peered into the void. He writes about the features of the modern literary process as well as prose by Mikhail Elizarov, Roman Senchin, German Sadulaev, and other famous authors. Personal experience is mixed with literary observations. Biographical details are a continuation (or, conversely, the source) of the writers' work, and all together it forms an elegant mosaic, not devoid of some practical usefulness: it is helpful to look at the tips and tricks of others.
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