Автобиографический миф о Японии как утопия творчества: Неизбежность ненаписанного Андрея Битова

The paper discusses Andrei Bitov’s book The Inevitability of the Unwritten, in which the author develops through several texts an autobiographical myth about a journey to Japan, which did not take place. Japan becomes a topic about which the author is unable to write and thus writing itself is ascribed a utopian character. The folk utopian tradition of the “Empire of Apon” in combination with several auto-intertextual relationships confirm the autoreferential aspects of this myth which expresses the utopia of writing in a time of the “inevitability of the unwritten”.