Author:
A. V. Grigorovskaya,
PhD in Philology,
Associate Professor of Russian and Foreign Literature Department,
Tyumen State University,
6 Volodarskogo st., Tyumen, 625003, Russian Federation ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9282-313X Scopus AuthorID: 57202704203
e-mail: a.v.grigorovskaya@utmn.ru
Abstract:
Introduction. The research problem is connected with the national specifity of literary utopia. The American and Russian features of utopian models are considered in the article. The goal is a comparison of two novels – Cash McCall (1955) by the American writer Cameron Hawley and Atlas Shrugged (1957) by the American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand (Russian-born Alisa Rozenbaum) for the evolving of specific signs of one or another utopian tradition.
Materials and Methods. The systemic-holistic and comparative-historical methods that are traditional for literary critics are used in the article.
Results. The author of the article compares two similar utopian episodes code-named “Penetration in-to the gulch” in Hawley and Rand’s novels. This episode is only the reason for the description of the roman-tic meeting between Cash and Lory in Hawley’s text. In Rand’s novel, the gulch also has the characteristic of inaccessibility but, unlike Hawley’s Atlantis, it has a great meaning transforming into the way of formulation of the writer’s philosophical ideas.
Conclusions. Hawley’s utopia is created in the American tradition while Rand’s utopia is designed in the Russian utopian tradition.
Keywords:
American utopia, Russian utopia, Atlantis, Ayn Rand, Cameron Hawley.
