PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION IN MODERN RUSSIAN LITERATURE: CRISIS OF HUMANISM VS. DEVELOPMENT?

The crisis of personal identification in the 20th century refers to the problems of a global nature. The fact that it escalated in the beginning of the 21st century may be evidenced by the works of contemporary Russian writers. The solution of this problem by the literature of the previous period revealed promising models and types of human activity for self-determination, nevertheless, in their change and development at the new stage, new tendencies, new artistic understanding are revealed. The authors of the article see these changes in the transition of characters from certain social roles and behavioral models to others, and this transition is reflected in the works of writers of different aesthetic orientations, but equally keenly feeling "instability" and crisis in the life of Russian society. In the center of the works of these writers is the search for an answer to the question about the possibility of such a person's self-identification, personal and social, that could chart a saving counteraction against the threat of universal dehumanization. In the center of the works of 1990-2000s is no longer an average person of the late Soviet years, not "in the middle", according to Makanin, but a marginal, loser, consciously choosing the uncertainty of social status, but not disclaiming responsibility for himself and others. This is supported by the social and existential choice of the hero, who at the moment of self-knowledge, awareness of his imperfections, is in search of the confessional Word, creative behavior as salvation from untrue, false self-identification. (C) 2019 Published by Future Academy