Author: Zhou, Shuhui

Annotation: . In Slapovsky's novel "The Winner", the heroine Dina writes to an non-existent child and tells her life experience from an ordinary girl to "Miss World" with chaotic memories. The author uses absurd strokes to describe a secular world that is both real and illusory, and deconstructs the Christian value of "beauty will save the world" from a post-modernist perspective. This article will use this work as the text to try to analyze Slapovsky’s postmodernist deconstruction of “beauty will save the world”.

Keywords: postmodernism, deconstruction, contemporary russian literature, Slapovsky, Dostoevsky, beauty will save the world, existentialism, philosophy

Pages in journal: 362 - 368