Davydova A.V.

Arkhangelsk context in the stories The Seventh Cartridge by I. D. Poluyanov and The Boys from Gaydar Street by S. N. Loychenko and K. M. Popov. Pp. 161–172.

UDC 821.161.1-31.09″19″

DOI 10.37724/RSU.2025.88.3.015

 

Abstract. The present article is the first to analyze local texts from Arkhangelsk that are based on fiction works intended for children. The aim of this work is to analyze texts from Arkhangelsk in the stories The Seventh Cartridge by I. Poluyanov (1981) and The Boys from Gaydar Street by P. Loychenko and M. Popova (1987). The author identifies elements of urban text in both works, determining specific features of the image of Arkhangelsk in the stories related to history and to the authors’ vision, and characterizes the features of the Pomorye capital city that are common to both texts and to the Northern text as such. The peculiarities of the Arkhangelsk text in the works are determined by the nature of the depicted historical events (Russian Civil War in I. Poluyanov’s book and the Great Patriotic War in the story written by P. Loychenko and M. Popov), the image of the narrator (his historical affiliation, personal experience, attitude to the past and present, to issues of growing up, etc.), and genre and compositional features (memoirs or diary). The typological features that bring the texts closer together include a depiction of the city at the turn of eras, binary semantic oppositions realized at the level of chronotope, connection with the theme of childhood and the genre of the coming-of-age story, actualization of significant spatial elements of the urban text through the category of the past, and the motifs of memory and generational continuity that are consistent in both the books as signs of North Russian identity. The theoretical significance of the study lies in the conducted testing of an integrative approach to the study of works of regional supertext and the representation of insufficiently studied fiction material. The practical significance of the work is due to the possibility of using its results in further studies of children’s fiction, urban texts, and Northern texts in Russian literature.

 

Keywords: Arkhangelsk regional subtext, urban text, S. N. Loychenko, M. K. Popov, “The Boys from Gaydar Street,” I. D. Poluyanov, “The Seventh Cartridge,” northern text in Russian literature for children.

 

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