Поколение заката СССР в романе Алексея Никитина Victory Park

Abstract

The subject of this article is the presentation of Soviet reality in Alexei nikitin’s novel, Victory Park. The Russian-speaking Ukrainian writer presents in this work a wide panorama of the life of the inhabitants of left-bank kiev in the first half of the 1980s. The generation of the late Stagnation Period lives in a world of discre- dited ideas, omnipresent absurdity, and hypocrisy. The aim of the article is to try to locate the sources of widespread apathy and hopelessness in nikitin’s novels, which, to a large extent, shape the young generation trying to find their way in a stagnant reality. The key to understanding the life attitudes of the protagonists is the analysis of the specificity of kiev reality, which is the dominant feature of the world presented in the Victory Park.