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Między utopią socjalizmu a karykaturą Zachodu. Nie-dziecięca interpretacja świata przedstawionego w trylogii o skrzacie Nieumiałku Mikołaja Nosowa

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Studenna-Skrukwa M.

Studia Europaea Gnesnensia

2018

issue 18

63-88

The paper is devoted to the trilogy written by Nikolai Nosov in 1953-1965, comprising The Adventures of Dunno and his Friends, Dunno in Sun City and Dunno on the Moon all of which rank high in the canon of Soviet literature for children. The first part introduces the ideological and educational objectives that literature for children in the USSR was expected to pursue, as well as the writer himself. The author argues that Nosov’s novels, officially intended for children, offer broad interpretive possibilities for the adult reader as well. Subsequent parts provide an analysis of the instalments of the trilogy whilst focusing on the setting in which the story takes place. This approach reveals satirical references to the Soviet and American realities of the 1950s and 1960s. In the final part, the conclusions are confronted with the contemporary perceptions of the novel, drawing on the content posted online.

This paper attempts an interpretation of Nikolai Nosov’s novels about the adventures of Dunno, which enjoyed a cult status in the Soviet Union. Despite being children’s literature, they are examined in terms of themes that have little to do with young readers. The analysis is historical rather than literary, aiming chiefly to elucidate the cultural context and the social notions from the period of Khrushchev’s thaw. Here, the author undertakes to answer the questions concerning the extent to which the reality created by Nosov served to mould the socialist worldview as early as childhood and, simultaneously, whether it incidentally offered the adult reader an opportunity of intellectual escape into the officially condemned world.

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Między utopią socjalizmu a karykaturą Zachodu. Nie-dziecięca interpretacja świata przedstawionego w trylogii o skrzacie Nieumiałku Mikołaja Nosowa