POSTCYBERPUNK FEATURES IN THE LUBEN DILOV’S NOVEL «CHOOSING ONESELF»
Journal Title: Проблеми сучасного літературознавства - Year 2015, Vol 0, Issue 21
Abstract
The article «Postcyberpunk features in the Luben Dilov’s novel «Choosing Oneself» is dedicated to the problem of the postcyberpunk’s functioning in the science fiction novel of the well-known Bulgarian modern writer. The main features of postcyberpunk and their implementation in the text are analyzed. The functioning of postmodern fiction with typical for the Bulgarian literature of early 2000s genre diffusion — a combination of techniques and themes of science fiction, cyberpunk, dystopian — is called by the scientists (eg, L. Person) postcyberpunk. It is stated that the work of the Bulgarian writer is highly existential, therefore the categories of immortality, self determining, exhaustion, doubt, despair, pessimism, death, immortality absurdity are examined. The author focuses on the question of human immortality: whether a person who has died several times can be treated as a person and, ultimately, what is a person? The suffering man «without hope» who doesn’t belong to the future any longer is a classic type of the existential literature. The postmodern principle of character destruction realises not only at the psychological and social levels, but also at the level of actual existence. The scientist Daniel Dimih didn’t exist any more, he was replaced by the biorobot Brain. Trying to stay a human being when the physical transformations have turned it into something else bring Luben Dilov closer to the advanced researches of postcyberpunk. The specificity of dreams’ images in the postmodern novel is analyzed. A dream in the novel manifasts itself at several levels: as an actual state of unconsciousness, as a dream reality and as an alternative space. The possible directions for the further investigations are: sexuality, Freudism, dream discourse. There are the following elements available in the postcyberpunk novel «Choosing Oneself»: cyberspace, direct connection of the human brain to the computer systems, artificial intelligence, bioimplant, nanotechnology, quantum physics, genetic engineering, social character, an attempt to help humanity, biopunk, cosmopunk. Luben Dilov in his novel gives new sense to such characteristics of postmodern aesthetics as destruction of character, the collapse of rationalism, the death of author ect. The article enables the exploring of the three realities functioning — real, dream and literary. The author points out that the novel gives many ways of reading and understanding.
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Olena Saikovska
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