Abstract: In this article Spivakovsky analyzes the creative writing of Vladimir Sorokin outside the customary borders of post-modernist paradigm, in terms of the contemporary theory of metamodernism. In particular, the researcher focuses on those works the classical postmodernist theory cannot possibly explain. Thus, the short stories 'Sergey Andreevich' and 'Love' from the series of novels 'The First Saturday Workday' demonstrate such feature as depthiness besides deconstructing postmodernist games, and the novel 'Marina's Thirtieth Love' and the short story 'Avaron' analyze the tragic basis that is so important for these works. The main instruments of the analysis used by Spivakovsky include the key concepts of the metamodernist theory, oscillation and depthiness. The tragic is also an important element of metamodernist approaches to analyzing the creative writing of Vladimir Sorokin. The short stories 'Sergey Andreevich', 'Love', Lonely Accordion' and 'Avaron' as well as the novel 'Marina's Thirtieth Love' are viewed by the researcher as metamodernistic works which allows to see Vladimir Sorokin's creative writing in a new light.