Tendenze del romanzo russo del XXI secolo: sull’attualizzazione del paradigma antroposofico della tradizione russa

In Russia-USSR, literature has long provided the main ethical-philosophical reference for the whole nation. The first sections of this paper try to explain why it has been so. Subsequently we survey what happened after the Soviet crash and what happens in Russian literature today, eventually focussing on two recent, well-known novels by A. Ivanov and P. Basinskij. Our paper describes the Nineties as years of “compensation”, when three different literary typologies emerged: Russian “postmodernism”; commercial mass-production; works harking back to traditional ethical-philosophical narratives. Since year 2000, these typologies have partially overlapped, but the most interesting direction in today’s fiction is the revival of “ethical anthropocentrism”. Thus, yet again, the traditional questioning of Good and Evil comes to the fore.