ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЙ ПЕРФОМАНС КАК МОНТАЖ АТТРАКЦИОНОВ В ДИСТОПИЧЕСКОМ РОМАНЕ ЕВГЕНИЯ ЗАМЯТИНА МЫ
POLITICAL PERFORMANCE AS A MONTAGE OF ATTRACTIONS IN YEVGENY ZAMYATIN’S DYSTOPIAN NOVEL WE

Summary/Abstract: The following article discusses Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel We (1920) which was examined with the use of interdisciplinary methodology combining the tools of performativity theory and semiotic analysis. In the dystopias that gained popularity in 20th-century Russian literature and have since occupied an important place in the literary process, the aesthetic aspect gives way to political and sociological concerns. This shift of literary dominant was initiated by Zamyatin’s novel whose publication coincided with the emergence of Sergei Eisenstein’s montage theory. The analysis of the dictator’s portrayal and various instruments of political performance allows the conclusion that Zamyatin to an alarming extent anticipated political theatricalization – the procedure that gained momentum in the subsequent decades of the 20th century.

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