ATTRACTION AND THE OPPOSITION TO UTOPIA IN THE NOVEL-ANTIUTOPIA AND IN THE WORKS OF RUSSIAN CYBERPANK

Abstract

The article is dedicated to disclosure of the attraction and the opposition to utopia in the antiutopian novel and in works of Russian cyberpunk. It is noted that life of characters of Russian cyberpunk which differ in behavior atypical for the society described by the authors is subject to the laws of attraction. The article concludes that both genres – antiutopia and Russian cyberpunk – are opposed to utopia. This opposition can be analyzed at several levels: artistic, semantic and psychological. The artistic aspect is primarily associated with the use of ironic images aimed at ridiculing the “ideal” utopian world, semantic – with the semantic meaning of the figurative picture of the artistic world, psychological – with the emotional impact that images carry in themselves. However, if antiutopia is to a greater extent aimed at opposing a socio-political utopia, then Russian cyberpunk is at opposing a scientific and technical utopia.