"The Petersburg Writing" Of Pushkin House From The Perspective Of Postmodernism

Pushkin House,Andrei Bitov's novel,is one of the representative masterpieces of Russian postmodern literature.In the novel,Lyova as protagonist,the author portrays the destiny and living conditions of the three generations of the intellectuals of Odoevtsev's family in different historical periods,and depicts the mental anxiety and alienation of people under the Soviet centralized system with the conflict of “father and son”.In the research field of the Russian literature “Petersburg theme”,taking the research path of urban poetics as the entry point under the perspective of postmodernism,the thesis explores the “Petersburg writing” of Pushkin House from three aspects: writing of Petersburg space,the character system of Petersburg,and bidirectional construction between the city and the people.Furthermore,it presents the author's deep thinking and attention to the culture of contemporary Russia.In addition to the introduction and conclusion,this paper is divided into three chapters.The introduction introduces the development and characteristics of Russian postmodern literature,the textual research of Pushkin House,the research summary of “Petersburg text and Petersburg theme” and the review of Russian intellectuals' subject-matter.The first chapter discusses the writing of “Petersburg Space” in Pushkin House,which is interpreted in three spaces of the image of Petersburg's city,the city experience of Bitov and the “Pushkin House”.The “Unreal City” in the image of the city highlights the essence of the erosion of Russian traditional culture under the Soviet totalitarian consciousness,and the city has been covered by “falsehood”.As a writer of Petersburg,Bitov,promoted the development and extension of the “Petersburg text code” with his unique urban experience,and endowed the “Pushkin House” with deep meaning: It is a superposition of “historical paper piles”,intellectual “cage” and reconstructed “spiritual space”,indicating that Bitov tried to use the “Pushkin House” to resist the totalitarianism of the Soviet and alienation of people.The second chapter summarizes the series of Petersburg characters in Pushkin House.In the time and space of Petersburg in the context of postmodernism,“Father and Son” continues the eternal proposition of Russian “How to do” in the Russian literature with the intergenerational conflict between the two generations.The son,Lyova,became the “superfluous man” of the Soviet era,and their encounters revealed a scene of mental “degeneration” of the people in the Soviet era.The descended “Russian Eternal Women” respectively metaphorizes two different values of Soviet culture and Russian traditional culture.The third chapter narrates the bidirectional construction between the city and the people in Pushkin House.Through the influence of the city on people and the reconstruction of people to the city,the paper sums up the postmodern answer to the question “Where is Russia going?” from Bitov,who gave a solution although the power space of Petersburg puts the people in the city in a state of repression: As a rebellion against the Soviet totalitarian system,the “Pushkin House” superimposed in three layers of space will serve as a symbol of the reconstruction of the spiritual culture of Petersburg.The conclusion section summarizes the significance of “Petersburg Writing” of Pushkin House in the “Petersburg Tradition” of Russian literature in the context of postmodernism.