Artistic deconstruction of the mythological idyll
The problem of idyllic space occupies an important place in the mythopoetics of the Siberian
text and can rightfully be considered as one of the dominant mythologemes in the culture and
literature of the peoples of Siberia. The implementation of this mythologeme is often the
mythopoetic topos of Belovodye. Belovodye attracted the attention of writers of the past two
centuries, including Siberian authors A. E. Novoselov, M. Plotnikov, and others. The change
in the paradigm of realistic writing with postmodern writing, which took place at the turn of
the 20th – 21st centuries, allows taking a different look at the mythological idyll to discover other ways of its artistic deconstruction. The play “Yakutia” by Altai playwright
A. E. Stroganov is considered as an example of deconstruction of the idyllic myth of the
postmodern era. Intended as an idyll of desolation, cold, and asceticism, finally, Yakutia miraculously turns into a country of joy, light and, warmth, i.e., it becomes the opposite of the
idyll, more consistent with the traditional form of typification. In the context of postmodernism, an appeal to the idyll shows that it has the features opposite to the realistic interpretation.
The idea of collective happiness is clearly replaced by the idea of individual freedom of a single person, his existence. At the same time, the main, archetypal features of the transformed
world turn out to be very similar to the original prototype: the world of evil left by the heroes
opens the way not for an idyll but for a new experience of comprehending the universe.
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