Brisbane is a unique neo-modernist novel that exemplifies Vodolazkin's worldview and the Russian modernist literary tradition.By employing the principle of universalization,the author constructs the biography of a musician.Firstly,the inclusion of musical thinking reflects the principle of universalization and the spirit of Silver Age music,with the author utilizing new-polyphonic narrative techniques in the novel's structure.Secondly,Brisbane presents the author's unique perspective on history and historical narrative based on the principle of universalization.Thirdly,the novel reveals the tension between the eternal world and the instantaneous world in its concept of time:childhood is included in the eternal world,while the future is excluded from the instantaneous world,effectively emphasizing the author's anti-utopian worldview.
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