The Signs of «Traditionalist» and Post-Modern Aesthetics Convergence (On the Basis of Critical Discourse Regarding A. Bitov‘s Literary Works)

Section: History of Journalism

Active discussion in Russian literary criticism between proponents and opponents of postmodernism as the literary trend has happened at the end of 1980-s — in 1990-s. Today the positions of it‘s former participants are more deliberated. It‘s well known, that texts by A. Bitov were used for argumentation of their points of view by critics of the both (postmodernist and traditionalist) sides. On the example of relations of this author with postmodernist criticism the article shows the features of convergence between “traditionalist” and postmodernist discourses.