Mahovskaya, O. I. Problem of the “Generation Gap” Based on the Tradition of Russian Humanities: Hamlets and Don Quixotes of the 19th-21st Centuries

Abstract: The article discusses the generation gap. The author discusses the historical background and brings out the problem of the generation gap in Western rational and Russian irrational arts. She also covers the “fatal” generation gap” discussed by the modern Russian sociologists and talks about the psychological version of the dramatic relationship between “Hamlets” and “Don Quixotes”.