作為當代俄羅斯重要文學主潮之一,新現實主義在當代俄羅斯自由化的文化語境和多元化的文化轉型中漸次興起,有其新的現實、新的方法和新的理念。它通過借用白銀時代新現實主義的文學遺產、各種先鋒現代思想和后現代主義思想,形成既區別與傳統現實主義和后現代主義,又部分介乎二者之間或之外的獨特文學態勢。其特點主要表現為美學觀念的哲理傾向、藝術手法的綜合趨勢和敘事策略的多樣態勢。其中,對社會現實的合成表現,對真實詩學的變異訴求,對人物形象的多樣塑造,則是新現實主義的詩學核心。這種思潮特點與詩學特色,部分呼應當代俄羅斯文學的整體風貌和藝術的宏觀特點。正因區別于傳統現實主義和后現代主義,新現實主義文學思潮既保留著現實主義的美學內涵,部分借鑒現實主義的創作基本原則,又吸收包括后現代主義在內的各種先鋒技巧,其本質應屬于現代主義美學范疇;正因介乎現實主義和后現代主義之間或之外,隨著后現代主義在俄羅斯的合法化和蔚為大觀,新現實主義文學思潮在1990年代逐漸實現與后現代主義的不斷合流和多樣對話。

As one of the main trends of contemporary Russian literature, new realism comes into being in the context of Russian cultural liberalization and cultural transformation, containing new realities, new strategies and new ideas. Inheriting the heritage of Russian neorealism in the Silver Age, it also makes use of postmodernist conceptions. However, unlike traditional realism and postmodernism, Russian new realism has such different features as philosophical orientation of aesthetic concepts, hybridity of artistic techniques, and diversity of narrative strategies. The tenets of Russian new realist poetics can be best summarized as synthesis of social reality, variety of poetic expression, and diversity of characterization, all of which go in accordance with the style and the macroscopic characteristics of contemporary Russian literature. Sharing the same aesthetic features and basic principles with modernism, Contemporary Russian new realism still falls into a broad aesthetic category of modernism. Occupying a liminal space between realism and postmodernism, Russian new realism began to merge into postmodernism in the 1990s when postmodernism was on its high tide in Russia.