MYTH AND REALITY IN MARK EFETOV’S STORY "THE LETTER ON TURTLE SHELL"
Oktyabr'skaya Ol'ga Svyatoslavovna
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Submitted: 23.06.2019
Abstract. The article analyses the multi-dimensional structure of Mark Efetov’s story "The Letter on Turtle Shell", which combines the features of a vacation story, the elements of an adventure novel and myth. The realistic story of creating the most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR is supplemented with cosmogonic and evangelical myths and cultural and literary myths about Kitezh, the Blue Bird and is superimposed on the socialist realistic myth about "big family". Defence of the Pioneer camp from fascists is considered through the lenses of the ancient heroic myth, the Crimean etiological myths about the appearance of Adalary rocks and the historical and cultural myth about miraculous escape from the enemies by jumping from the rock; the "stone sailor" story creates a new mythologeme tracing its origin to the Bronze Horseman, Bashmachkin’s ghost, the Mermaid image, etc. The current realistic story is interpreted through the prism of the solar myth and the author’s neo-myth.
Key words and phrases: Марк Ефетов, детская литература, каникулярная повесть, образ ребёнка, космогонический миф, героический миф, солярный миф, неомиф, крымский текст, крымский миф, Mark Efetov, children’s literature, vacation story, child’s image, cosmogonic myth, heroic myth, solar myth, neo-myth, Crimean text, Crimean myth
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