Sogomonyan Mariam Keropovna – PhD in Philology, Assistant Professor, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics; ORCID: 0000-0002-2298-6996
The present article covers transcultural uniqueness and imagological peculiarities in The Amphibian Man (1927), the most popular short novel by Soviet science fiction writer Alexander Belyaev. Genre and literary properties assessment in the reviewed artwork narrative, it being a complex fictional fusion, alongside with the author’s successful reconstruction techniques of foreign artistic reality within the Soviet literature framework make the focus of the research. With transcultural prose fiction recently gaining more popularity and tending to prefer imagological models of exotic national and cultural worldview in contrast to multicultural literature trends, Belyaev’s potential to follow Latin American novel tradition together with a perfect combination of literary game and literary eclecticism are of undeniable interest. Since the chosen perspective has scarcely been concerned by the Russian literary critics, the present article can be labelled as a pioneering analysis of transcultural literary representation created in the short novel, that hallmarks its genre features along with detecting the percentage of typical and genuine Latin American prose components, and assesses linkage to the plot patterns and probable proportions of literary stereotypization, archetypization and fictionalization.
transcultural text; science fiction; Latin American prose; popular novel; popular fiction; archetypisation