On the Margin of Genre Typology or The Hidden Pioneer of Russian Science Fiction (Faddey Bulgarin)
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Slavica Nitriensia |
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| Web | http://www.krus.ff.ukf.sk/images/Slavica_Nitriensia/SN_2016_01.pdf |
| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Typology of science fiction; the literature of virtual authenticity; existential uncertainty; Russian sicence fiction; Faddey Bulgarin; Russian literature |
| Description | Science fiction had its predecessors as early as 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. One of the pioneers – besides Vladimir Odoevsky or Osip Senkovsky – was Faddey Venediktovich Bulgarin/Tadeusz Bułharyn (1789-1859). He formed a specific genre form called the“moral-satirical novel“ and presented it in the best form in his Ivan Vyzhigin (1829) and in its not very successful continuation Peter Ivanovich Vyzhigin (1831). The kernel of Bulgarin’s science fiction short stories is the didactic style, rather a weak story/plot construction, the genre character of preaching which represents the rest of utopian models in contrast to post-romantic irony, a sarcasm leading to a more frustrating picture of the world. This model moving from the technological position towards the general social and existential skepticism of dystopia which slowly and slightly arose in Bulgarin’s prose fragments prevailed in Russian science fiction in the course of the whole 20th century and also remained the dominant paradigm in the 21st century. |