A girl in a black intrudise blouse in the school yard during a big change lonely, away from noisy peers, reads a thick book? A boy with glasses with a broken arc under the stands of the stadium is immersed in a comic? How many times in the cinema and series have you seen such a picture, and? The best way to show that the main character prefers solitude is to give him a book and force him to read in a crowded place. It is about solitude, not about ostracism. The book easily became an attribute of an introvert in a visual culture, sometimes it seems that it has always been like that. But how much a single hero himself is an interesting character for fiction?
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Introverts in trend. Even so: calling yourself an introvert in the 2010s has become a fashion trend, “yes, I am introvert” and ten years later holds the attention of consumers of social networks. Sorry, but the introverts in pop culture stood in line immediately after unicorns who replaced the cats. Introvership in this context is not the level of comfort that a person needs in social situations, but the speed of its exhaustion in the processes of social interaction. In general, an introvert of memes personifies social anxiety. And that is how he becomes a trend. One way or another, the fashion for introverts made this option more visible, it is more often used to determine / describe itself and its behavior. The 2015 study of British Journal of Psychology 2015: In decades among young people in the UK, social anxiety doubled. Frontiers in PSychology research on social attitudes of 2017: since 2012, the indicators on the introversion scale are steadily and significantly increased in the USA (the book market trends sets on English literature, so I look towards these two countries).
Romanov, where in the main role is a single hero, and more often the heroine, in fact, became more (if we talk about the lists of bestseller, at least). The solitude and self -isolation of the hero, whose problems with socialization move the plot, become a condition in books that easily fly into the charts. However, the radical isolation of the hero is still an infrequent phenomenon (it will be difficult to build the plot), and usually it is not voluntary.
Let's say “where the crayfish” Delia Aries is a novel, which over 18 million people bought in a few years. The young girl lives in solitude in the swamps, her mother escaped from a heavyweight husband, the older brothers-sisters left, in the end, dad and dad and dad. Kia lives herself, from time to time good -hearted people from the city nearby help her. She, due to poor socialization, subtly feels nature (supposedly these compensatory mechanisms) and becomes a skilled scientist-biologist. Roman is actually a detective: they killed a young man popular in the city, and this swamp girl is suspected. I emphasize one point: Kia chooses loneliness and self-isolation is not voluntarily, it is a quotal of the plot about the “mowgli child”. But the book where solitude is what the heroine needs and what she wants, but cannot get.
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Sayaki Murata " The girl works in a round -the -clock store (combi), which are very many in Japan and which should not differ from each other - they embody constancy and comfort. Her work is absolutely mechanical, purely repeated actions and protocols. She does not want other work. Lives alone. Eats dishes from combi. Communicates with parents and sister when he should. Does not want to marry categorically. And you know what? She is happy. But relatives are crushing, and the girl finds a guy and a new job and almost brings herself to a nervous breakdown. Beautiful story about coercion to happiness, which is for you by someone else, is actually beautiful. But there is one emphasis: the heroine of the Murata is a neuro -expanded person.
Romanes about loners make a bet on authenticity, but this condition is described as a painful pathological, as a moment of deviation or coercion. The fashion for introverts has fixed the moment of social anxiety, and the last ten years, especially in Covid and post-oki, is culturally appreciated, an obsessive public demonstration of anxiety becomes. (The one who pronounces the worst forecasts, preferably apocalyptic as possible, sounds more believable, even expertly: this is clearly visible from the analytics of Ukrainian public faces over the past three years. ) Books about introverts that are happy to be alone, sooner or later will make their heroes suffer for a reader's request.
When you plunge into the trend “Yes, I am introvert”, you often read the implicit feeling of the advantage of people whom social activity exhausts. Extroverts are, they say, about shallow resins, introverts about brilliant internal monologues, yes? No, not yes. The hit of non-fiction of the beginning of the 2010s was the book by Susan Kane “The power of introverts”, where the author thinks that society is organized around extroverts, while introverts are minority groups like women in the 1950s, they / we are incorrectly understood and depreciated. In particular, she notes that in the literary heroes of the twentieth century, the outright confidence of the extrovert is valued primarily. Freedom of oppressed introverts! As for literature, it was not entirely so, and so it was not always, if at all it was. Even in the twentieth century, not solitude, but spiritual isolation plus the incompleteness of solitude became the leading theme of the Western canon, and Franz Kafka with “transformation” - its prophet. And a single hero in separate genres, individual styles and in certain times for elegant literature became almost a fetish. And this is in no way connected with the social organization of societies, it is a purely literary, even purely genre business.
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Well, in the XVIII - XIX centuries in European literature there was such a genre variety - " In the twentieth - XXI centuries, such books were already a parody of this ancient genre (such a complex parody was written by Robert Walzer on a walk or Olga Tokarchuk in Empusion). The exemplary text “Walk” comes from Austria, the classic there is a “forest path” of Adalbert Stifter. Theodore is 26 years old, he is an eccentric, he has an ironic nickname Tiburius (from the word " He was raised by four different people, education was unsystematic, Tiburius grew up limp, hypochondriac. And now he is completely lonely - an orphan without friends. However, very prosperous. Tiburius travels around the resorts, and one of the doctors appoints him long walks. On one of the walks, he is lost on a picturesque forest path. At first he was scared, then fascinated by the beauty of the forest and became obsessed with long lonely walks. Well, as lonely. There, on the trail, he will meet later Maria, a pious peasant. During the year of active bridge, the young man completely recovers and takes Maria in his wife. With our money - incredibly pathos and tedious reading.
In modern literature, we prefer a router like “on the road” Jack Keruak. A person throws their clothes in a car and goes where his eyes look with some stupid goal, meets people on the way, recognizes their stories, which immediately become part of his biography. People enter and go out, the road continues, because it is actually not a journey, the destination does not matter, the transit state itself is important, you have not arrived, but already left. ROUD Roman is the opposite of a “walk”, where the main condition is that the hero who knows himself in motion, everyone leaves alone, he must be a loneliness to take place as the main character of the novel, that is, to survive the transformation.
A few weeks ago, I came across a very fresh Ukrainian prose, which successfully and very interestingly “modernizes” the genre of walk. Elena Bondarenko in the book " This journey had a therapeutic goal: in the first months of a full -scale invasion, the author worked as a military correspondent, a reporter in Poland, then the working pace was sleeping, and psychological fatigue fell, the need arose to adapt to the new realities of life. Elena - an experienced tourist - is taken to plan an individual route, does everything very quickly and goes. And then there will be a transformation of the heroine: her body changes, which gained weight by stress and due to age-related diseases; She sees Soviet occupation monuments, abandoned villages, former battlefields of wars that ended. Watches how nature heals the wounds that people inflicted on her wars. She herself models the situation of hazard experience in order to have a reference point and distinguish, where the danger is, and where the existential threat is at body level. “Bowed Dni, if I was assured, I don’t know the nіhtho, de sama, I feel like, yaki my consumes. TSE is it in a water -to -water one. It may seem that “Sam” is a report on a tourist campaign in the mountains, but this book is about adaptation to the challenges of war... This is our genre “Walks”.
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You do not immediately realize this moment from the history of the book. Our idea of \u200b\u200breading as a time of solitude and immersion is formed not so long ago, in the new time. In addition, these are collective practices, primarily reading aloud: they read books in the church, in the family circle, in schools and universities, a group of listeners consumed one work at the same time. This is a completely different phenomenon than a boy with comics under football stands. Reading alone is a neoplasm, but in the books of loner-introverts become a kind of mirror for art itself. They are non -functional: to read and not discuss with another and not to share with other emotions from what you read is a unprofitable practice.
Fashion on “Yes, I am introvert” is associated with changes in the culture of the workplace: the traditional form (office or enterprise from 9:00 to 17:00) is increasingly inferior to the more flexible structure of the time of the time of the remote organization of work. Probably, this view should be accepted, but to expand the prospect. Ben-Chol Khan-a German theorist of the culture of South Korean origin-put forward a fear of what a pretty theory: we are functioning now in the " Generations that motivated the ambitions of efficiency that did not allow failure were included in the peak of self -interpretation.
When everyone has the means of production, the class system is blurred, so everyone is the owner and employee in one person, and the class struggle is an internal conflict with himself. Forgive a very superficial retelling, but the fashion for introvership is one of the side but surprisingly visible effects of burnout communities. The subject in such communities is something like a project: at every new stage it is re -formatted again.
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