Author:
G. V. Burtsev,
Postgraduate Student,
National Research Tomsk State University,
36 Lenina ave., Tomsk, 634050, Russian Federation
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4878-4054
e-mail: alan-uchiha@yandex.ru
A. A. Kazakov,
Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor,
National Research Tomsk State University,
36 Lenina ave., Tomsk, 634050, Russian Federation
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9074-231X
e-mail: akaz75@mail.ru
Introduction. The article describes the problem of the intertextual context of Bradbury’s reception in the Strugatsky Brothers’ works. The purpose is to learn one of the aspects of this context – the artistic heritage of Dostoevsky F. M. and Kafka F. as a background for the perception of Bradbury’s world by the Strugatsky brothers.
Materials and Methods. The intercommunication between the contexts of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Bradbury and the Strugatsky Brothers is considered using comparative study methods.
Results. Dostoevsky and Kafka are important models in the area of fantastic simulation of social, philosophical and existential problematics and in the field of dystopian subject matter. However, the influence of these writers on Bradbury and the Strugatsky Brothers, as well as on the perception of the American fantast by the Russian writers has appeared to be different in intensity.
Conclusions. Dostoevsky had a significant impact on Bradbury and the Strugatsky Brothers. The latter ones perceive the American writer as a representative of Dostoevsky – Huxley – Bradbury’s dystopian tradition. Kafka’s impact was much more limited because may be at that moment adaptation and rationalization of parabolic symbolism of his art world had not been formed within the dystopian line of XX century (as opposed to Dostoevsky). There were no worthy mediators between science fiction writers and Kafka in the second half of the XX century (like Huxley in connection with Dostoevsky’s heritage).
Keywords:
R. Bradbury, the Strugatsky Brothers, Dostoevsky F. M., Kafka F., intertext, reception, Russian-American literature connections, dystopia, science fiction.
