A chaos novel Aleksandr Goldstein

Devoted to the works of the writer A. Goldstein, the paper focuses on his innovative form of novel: the chaos novel. Fundamental for any novel as a genre, the structuralized concept of history appears as a quality of the discursive, narrative, and poetic chaos itself: not in spite of it, or as its source, but specifically as its quality and manifestation. Describing the ‘chaos’ of Goldstein’s novels, especially his most famous work Remember Famagusta [Pomni o Famaguste], the author uses the term ‘dissipative’ to define its chaotic and simultaneously deterministic structure: he finds it the best term to characterize the author’s writing method. Taking into account the novel’s numerous critical reviews, he comes up with the most detailed analysis of Goldstein’s ‘continuous writing’, which, the critic believes, proves that the development of complex chaotic-deterministic systems of the novel remains one of modern literature’s most vital tasks.