Garden of diverging destinies. Medieval tradition in modern literature

The proposed book is a comprehensive study of one of the varieties of postmodernism, which can be called traditionalist or oriented to tradition, analyzing the work of four writers: the great Russian writer Sigismund Dominikovich Krzhizhanovsky (1887-1950) and Italians of the XX-XXI centuries-Paolo Volponi (1924-1994) , Alessandro Barikko (born 1958) and Federico Holish (born 1963) The author considers the actualization of the biblical, Byzantine and Western European medieval traditions in the work of Krzhizhanovsky and compares the same aspects in the works of Italian writers Volponi and Barikko. Artists of this trend consciously enter into dialogue with almost all the leading traditions of world culture (but first of all, of course, with cultures of antiquity, the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque) For comparison with them, on the principle of counterpoint, the novels of the representative of the naive realism of F. Heochia are taken, to a large extent devoted to the same problems (creativity, love, existential choice of heroes) The book consistently discusses the problem of understanding the truth in the postmodernism of this type and outlines the ways of its non -standard solution through the identification of Sigismund by Krzhizhanovsky of medieval sacred sources of the teaching of truth