The art of absence. The unnoticed generation of Russian literature

Poplavsky, Warsaw, Felsen managed to enter the history of emigrant literature of the 1920-1930s in the paradoxical quality of unnoticed who fell out of the history of writers. More than successful Nabilities formally belong to the same "unnoticed generation". Showing how the controversial image of the generation was evolving, on which strategies, values, social mechanisms, he relied, the author explores the logic of special collective identity - negative and universal. This is the logic of limit values ​​("eternity", "death", "loneliness") and blurred programs (" novelty "," letter about the most important "," Brotherhood "), declarative aliteuriousness and desire to recreate the literature" from nothing. It is characteristic that the model "of unnoticed generation", which arose in the conditions of the institutional crisis, but the high status of national literature, is actively used in the 90s and 2000s to describe modern stories