%0 Journal Article
%T Decision-Making Indisposition. Some Features of Relativism in Selected Prose Works by Egor Fetisov
%A Brążkiewicz, Bartłomiej
%J Slavonic Culture
%V 2021
%R 10.4467/25439561KSR.21.012.14423
%N Vol. XVII
%P 249-266
%K Russian literature, Russian prose-fiction, Petersburg text in Russian literature, existential issues, Egor Fetisov
%@ 2451-4985
%D 2021
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/kultura-slowian/article/decyzyjna-niedyspozycja-niektore-oblicza-relatywizmu-w-wybranych-utworach-prozatorskich-jegora-fietisowa
%X The newest Russian prose fiction, codified within more extensively labelled “contemporary” literature, expresses the universality of generational problems rooted in human fears, self-identity problems, numerous confusions and a sense of loneliness. The analysis of two novels by Egor Fetisov fitting into the concept of Petersburg text of Russian literature, shows their proximity to existential issues. The considerations reflected in the dialogues of the novels’ characters are ideologically oriented, with reference to such questions as the drama of choices to make, freedom and responsibility, a game of appearances, authenticity in life, as well as some distancing from “the imposed.” The central message of the novels concerns the “decision-making indisposition” seen as a kind of powerlessness experienced in the face of necessity to make a choice. The problem, constituting one of the key experiences of human subjectivity and typical of “present-day,” is often relativised in the discussed novels.