Gender aspect of human ecology in Dmitry Lipskerov's novel about him and about butterflies

Vol.21,No.1(2018)

Inna Kalita

https://doi.org/10.5817/SL2018-1-3

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http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/137995

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Abstract
The article presents Dmitri Lipskerov's novel About Him and About Butterflies (2016) in the general context of the writer's novel prose. The author deals with a new topic of gender change in the modern society. The plot of the novel is based on reminiscence connection with N. Gogol's Nose, since Lipskerov's main character discovers the absence of his male organ. D. Lipskerov interprets gender changes creatively. These changes resonate with the problems described by K. Capek in Rossum's Universal Robots (1920). The authors from different cultures and generations show that the processes of "robotization" and "feminization" of human society lead to its degeneration. Disappearing of feelings and faith in a relationship between a man and a woman causes spiritual impoverishment and violates the ecology of human existence.

Keywords:
modern Russian novel; magical realism; reminiscences; gender changes; Dmitri Lipskerov; thematic innovation; human ecology

Pages:
31–39
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