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Iryna Shylnikova
Università del Salento, Lecce
Iryna Shylnikova, PhD candidate, works on contemporary Russian and Ukrainian literature. She is the author of some essays published in international scientific journals. Among the most recent are "Vostok na zapade. Russkaya intelligencya v Evrope v 20-30-h godah XX veka", in Zhenshchiny i muzhchiny v migratsionnych protsessah proshlogo i nastojashchego: materialy XII mezhdunarodnoy nauchnoy konferentsii (2019). Her interests also include the study of morphology and lexicon in the field of didactics of Russian language.
Transfigurative Dynamics in Literary Mythopoiesis in The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
One of the trends in contemporary women's literatureis the attempt to preserve the myth and to provide it with a new interpretation, creating signs, symbols and associations related to the history of mankind. Thisphenomenon is also widely present in contemporary Russian literature: myth is the common theme in the in the works of Russian women writers, myth represents the fil rouge in the interweaving of history, culture and psychology. As M. Lipovetsky states, the women writers construct "a new, non-hierarchical and non-absolute mythology of the game", by the use of ancient mythology. The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaja, one of the most important writers in contemporary Russian literature, represents an attempt to desecrate the myth, describing a society that, due to the loss of its cultural heritage, is undergoing a dramatic regression to the primitive state.
The aim of this study is to retrace the process of myths re-elaborating, the strategies of mythologisation/demythologisation that lie at the core of The Slynx as well as of the whole work of Tatyana Tolstaya, who depicts the post-apocalyptic return of an archaic perception.
