Transgression and frontier in postmodern culture and literature

Actualization of such concepts as transgression and frontier in postmodern literature and culture is associated with understanding the virtuality of the modern culture. Identification of a postmodern person is determined not by socially established objective realias of the surrounding reality, but by virtual internal borders that man develops in a dialogue with the Other. The reality is transferred to the sphere of human mentality. The concept of the border becomes a keynote. The border is subdued in the process of transgression and acts as a frontier – a dynamic space between what is already completed and what is in a potential state. Transgressive practices in modern culture are simulacra, non-places, as well as literature itself with its attempts to go beyond the limits of conventionality, creating an illusion of perceiving things, which do not exist. Postmodern literature is positioned as a game that always violates its own rules and goes beyond its own limits, beyond an interpretative and estimated description of reality. The frontier as a manifestation of the marginal character of a postmodern person is imposed on the specific features of postmodern texts in mapping the mentality of the postmodern character, in particular his mental states, states of consciousness and linguistic discourse