Looking for national and genre identity in the modern Russian and Hungarian author fairy tale (on the example of the texts by A. Kabakov, A. Stepanov and A. Mosonyi)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31168/2073-5731.2020.3-4.4.05Keywords:
Literary (author) fairy tale, Russian literature, Hungarian literature, children’s literature, national problematics, the memory of the genreAbstract
The essay deals with the interaction between the genre transformations of the author fairy tale and the national problematics, as well as the question of the modern strategies of genre renewal on the example of the texts by modern Russian and Hungarian writers (“The Moscow fairy tales” by A. Kabakov, “The fairy tales not about people” by A. Stepanov, “The Budapest fairy tales” and “The supermarket fairy tales” by A. Mosonyi). Among other questions, I address the so-called “genre memory” (M. Lipovetsky’s term), which in the texts by Kabakov, Stepanov, and Mosonyi functions at the level of entire cycles but rarely at the level of separate texts. With regard to the field of children’s literature, the national locus makes the texts appear more modern-looking and therefore appealing to an adult reader who rediscovers the details of everyday life. The opposite strategy is often applied in the philosophical, parable or political fairy tales, when the authors give priority to the nation-specific, nuanced and recognizable locus, which at the same time receives the features of the fairy tale or mythological space.
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Korolkova P. V. Looking for national and genre identity in the modern Russian and Hungarian author fairy tale (on the example of the texts by A. Kabakov, A. Stepanov and A. Mosonyi) // Slavic Almanac. 2020. Issues 3–4. P. 383–398. DOI: 10.31168/2073-5731.2020.3-4.4.05
