ATTITUDES TO LOVE AS A METHOD OF CHARACTERISTICS OF CHARACTERS IN THE STORY OF G. SHCHERBAKOVA «YOU WOULD NOT EVEN DREAM»
DOI: 10.23951/1609-624X-2018-2-211-217
The theme of love is analyzed in G. Shcherbakova’s school narrative «You would not even dream». The peculiarity of the author’s interpretation of love is revealed through the analysis of the organization of the plot, the system and images of characters, narration, allusions. The analysis of the personnosphere of the story allowed to distinguish the types of characters, depending on their understanding and attitude to love: pragmatists and romantics who sacrifice and selfishly demand reciprocity; disappointed and believing in the life-giving power of love. The semantics of love is revealed in character dialogs and includes such meanings as a disease that causes pain, destroying belief in reciprocity and into yourself, the fire that attracts and destroys people (Kostya, Zoya); epidemic / madness / natural disaster, the triumph of the natural-biological over the social (the school director), the manifestation of the socio-biological needs of people not to be lonely (Vera, Misha); exalted feeling, gift, meaning of existence (Tatiana, Romka, Julia). The plot lines of the characters demonstrate that the choice of the model of relationships and understanding of love is due to various factors, among which the presence / absence of experience (positive or traumatic), personal values. An essential role in revealing the theme of love is played by references to classical world literature: to William Shakespeare’s play «Romeo and Juliet», to Pushkin’s novel «Eugene Onegin» and Leo Tolstoy’s «Anna Karenina», and to Chekhov’s works. Correlating yourself or others with the characters of literature, and your life - with the plots of works becomes a way of self-reflection and self-determination. G. Shcherbakova avoids edification, but invites readers to dialogue and self-determination. But, ultimately, as the most appropriate to the concept of happiness described by mutual love, which is not reduced to sexual attraction and social need in the family. The author proves the unproductiveness of both pragmatic and idealistic understanding of love: the first deprives the life of the spiritual dimension, the second - does not allow reconciling dreams with reality, realizing themselves. Finally, G. Shcherbakova, making the final of the story open (we do not know whether the hero survived or not), rejects the identification of love and life peculiar to people at a young age (as modern Romeo and Juliet show). To find mutual love is a great success, but to keep it is everyday work, a greater feat than death (like Shakespearian lovers or Anna Karenina).
Keywords: teenage literature of the second half of the twentieth century, G. Shcherbakova, school novel, theme of love
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Issue: 2, 2018
Series of issue: Issue 2
Rubric: CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Pages: 211 — 217
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