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“Boys with Swords” – The Heroes of the Last Soviet Generation and the Models of Masculinity in Vladislav Krapivin’s Fiction

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Sergienko I.

Filoteknos

2021

issue 11

341-352

The prose of Vladislav Krapivin is one of the most significant phenomena in Russian children’s literature of the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Krapivin’s stories became popular in the 1970–1980s largely due to the new type of hero offered therein. Krapivin’s typical protagonist is a teen boy displaying the features of both traditional and new norms of Soviet masculinity. This type of protagonist was named by critics and readers as a “Krapivian boy.” The focus of this article is on the gender analysis of the character of Krapivin’s protagonist in the socio-cultural context of the Soviet epoch. This essay deals with Krapivin’s texts considered the core of his work: the vignettes, novellas, and novels distinguished by the image of “Krapivin’s boy” – the main character type in Krapivin’s writing. The article also contains the analysis of the readers’ reception. The author aims to show the connection of Krapivin’s literary characters with the reality of male gender socialization in the years after the Second World War, and to explain what led to the demand for the “boy with a sword” character in Soviet and post-Soviet culture.

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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“Boys with Swords” – The Heroes of the Last Soviet Generation and the Models of Masculinity in Vladislav Krapivin’s Fiction

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