DYSTOPIA AND POPULIST NARRATIVES THROUGH THE LENS OF FEAR OF THE FUTURE IN THE NOVEL ‘MELANCHOLY OF RESISTANCE’ BY LÁSZLÓ KRASZNAHORKAI

Abstract

The article proposes a synthesis of artistic-literary and futurological teachings, existential motifs and artistic existence of a contemporary work of art, projected onto the modern reader and the people of the 21st century in general. It is this perspective – prognostic-artistic and artistic-philosophical – allow us to speak about the researcher’s own contribution as a reader, observer and interpreter of real and artistic reality. The aim is to explore the importance and relevance of László Krasznahorkai’s work for the future of humanity through the existential and futuristic motifs of fear in the dystopian work of this year’s Nobel Prize winner for literature.
The subject of the study is the existential, apocalyptic motifs of the work, based on the concept of fear. Methods: contextual, descriptive, comparative, analysis, synthesis.