V. Sorokin’s Novel “Marina’s Thirtieth Love” in the Coordinates of Soc-Art and Social Realism

The purpose of the study is to analyze V. Sorokin’s conceptualist novel “Marina’s Thirtieth Love” (1984), to identify the features of its genre-structural constructions, to trace the connection of genre features of the “Soviet novel” with the tradition of Socialist realism literature and its deconstructions in the practice of conceptual art of the 1970s–80s. The paper identifies the target settings of the conceptual novelist Sorokin to overcome the principles and techniques of Soviet socialist realist art and to establish discrediting perspectives of perception of social and ideologically stable “concepts” that developed in the post-October period. It is established that the imitation base in Sorokin’s “Marina’s Thirtieth Love” was the so-called “production novel”, a thematic subspecies of prose of socialist realism.