| "Underground, or a hero of our time" is a Makanin’s masterpiece ofpostmodern literary creation, it is one of the practice works of literarydevelopment in Russia. In his works, the inheritance and development of theclassic image of Russian literature–the "underground" by postmodernismwriting approach, to show the readers bizarre behavior of bizarre social scenesand charawcters during the disintegration of the Soviet Union.The "underground" have profound historical origins in Russian, he isconstantly enriched and improved the up in another classic image by thegenerations of Russian Writers, and his image is rooted in the Russianliterature "superfluous man". The writers before Makanin only created a herowith distorted psychology and bizarre behavior under the social oppression,Makanin described "undergrounds" and "divide" them: Petrovich, the firmguardian of inner "self"; Vinetikt who dared to confront oppression andfinally became crazy;"traitors" of underground people who yield socialpressure. In addition to the classification of the underground people, Makaninstill explore the direction of development of a new era of Russian literaturethroughout his works. In his works, a large number of fragments of classicalRussian literature and Russian traditional folk are reproduced, and creativetechniques of modernism in the adoption of these materials have been integrated, his works gave the readers a refreshing feeling.Makanin intended to show people his thoughts on the development ofRussian literature by inheriting and innovating development through theimage of the "underground" work practice, that is, it’s necessary to innovatein the inheritance of the Russian cultural tradition. |
