FRUMOASA RUSOAICĂ DE VIKTOR EROFEEV: DECONSTRUCȚIA UNUI ARHETIP CULTURAL

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The article means to investigate the manner in which the novelist creates a female character who has little in common with the Russian literary and cultural canon, through the dynamic in said character's construction, the ideation and symbolism found in the novel and the postmodern techniques employed (intertextuality, fragmentation, parody, relativization of meanings in the text etc.). Part of the analysis highlights the inclusion of Erofeev's female character into the array of postmodern protagonists, an antihero with a fragmented personality and a fluid identity, in whose existential universe libertinism, uninhibited sexuality, the absence of any taboo, mental frailty and nihilism, along with sarcasm
and resentment towards the world around her, surface. In addition, we're taking into consideration another deconstructive mechanism of the Russian female archetype, precisely one through which Erofeev attributes to the protagonist roles that, up to that point in literature, had been exclusively assigned to male characters. Thus, Ira acquires the attributes of a reflection character, showcasing numerous social issues, Soviet society's shortcomings, lack of dignity among writers of that time etc.