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2009
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Anatoly Tokmakov, « La prose de Minaev : phénomène d'altérité « dirigée » », La Revue russe, ID : 10.3406/russe.2009.2395
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Minaev's prose is a literature of manipulation. The author seems to dissect the world of glamour and success to dispute mass-culture, to denounce the new rich, the jet set - all those whom he calls « the soulless ». The writer claims to offer the diary of a new Pechorin, a present-day Byronic hero. The story, however, is not meant to show a character but to send the readers an ideological message which differs little from official discourse. Aiming at commercial success, many of Minaev's novels are bestsellers - the author tries to represent a false « other » comprised of the current power's admirers, who are presented as a minority. The support given to the writer by the Kremlin-directed media and the conjunction of Minaev's thesis with the main points of propaganda seem to suggest that his prose might be part of a large-scale ideological project.