Tatiana N. Krasavchenko, DSc in Philology, Chief Researcher, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimovsky Avenue, 51/21, 117418, Moscow, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5479-7957
The theory of genetic memory of literature developed by an outstanding Russian philologist Sergey G. Bocharov (1929–2017). A special attention is paid here to his controversy with French philosophers and literary scholars – Roland Barthes and Julia Kristeva. The study of this – polemical – vector, without claiming to fully research the theories of both sides, reveals that similar, as it seemed, theories of the “space of literature” emerged in France and Russia around the same time (the second half of the twentieth century). But in fact they were radically different as they had fundamen- tally different cultural and philosophical foundations: Bocharov’s basis was traditionalist, “organic”, personalist, Barthes’ and Kristeva’s one was “revolutionary”, avan-garde, depersonalized. Barthes’ concepts of the difference between a “literary work” and “text”, of “the death of the author”, as well as his adept – Kristeva’s “theory of intertextuality” were aimed at denying all forms of ideology, but the “gene of leftism” they contained – their focus on total criticism of bourgeois society, “utopian vector” caused their own idealogization.
genetic memory of literature; theory of intertextuality; traditionalism; avan-gardism; utopia; intercultural communication.
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