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This paper consists of an analysis of the newest synthesis of 20th Century Russian literature published in Poland, written by Vasiliy Shchukin, a scholar affiliated with Jagiellonian University in Kraków. The author of the analysis shows how subjective and sometimes unprofessional some parts of the analyzed book are.

The paper deals with two poems: "Ты поскачешь во мраке…" by Joseph Brodsky, and "Я буду скакать по следам задремавшей отчизны…" by Nikolay Rubtsov. Analyzing some features of these poems and comparing similarities in both poets' biographies, the author states the significant difference between them. Rubtsov, in his opinion, has an identity typical for pre-modern subjectivity. It is conventional, stereotypical, and conservative, full of faith in idealized old Russian values. Brodsky's self-defining is in this aspect close to late modernity. It is liquid, all the time in movement, never convinced about self-identity.

Using metaphorical connotations terms functioning within postcolonial theory, the author analyzes mechanisms ruling the world of the novel Fortress (Крепость) by Piotr Aleshkovsky.