Ds in Philology, Leading Researcher of the Department of Literary Studies, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences
James Meek, a writer of Scottish origin, is distinguished by a greater artistic talent among other British novelists, who worked in Russia as journalists (Owen Matthews, Andrew Miller). In his widely known postmodernist novel The People’s Act of Love he masterfully uses creative techniques of horrible, gothic, erotic, “plays” with realistic, naturalistic, expressionistic artistic methods, combines traditions of Dostoevsky and Andrey Platonov, as well as exciting stories of love, of eunuchs sect, of Czech legion in Siberia, of cannibalism of prisoners who escaped from arctic camps.
contemporary British novel; image of Russia; traditions of British Gothic; traditions of Dostoevsky and Andrey Platonov.