Children's utopia (a tale by E. Uspensky “Uncle Fyodor, his dog and his cat”)

His article analyzes the specifics of the “children’s” utopia based on E. Uspensky’s tale “Uncle Fyodor, his Dog and his Cat”, that represents a childhood dream of a good life, of the achievement of children’s aspirations. The analysis is conducted in comparison with the specific features of the classic “adult” utopia. The folkloristic and fairy character of Uspensky’s children’s utopia is remarked here as well as the “superconductivity” of its space; the role of a game in the utopia; the lack of a common feature of any classic utopia which is the “absence of a hero”. It is concluded among other things that social structure of a society, which plays the main role in the “adult” utopia, is substituted here for familiar to a child daily routines that organize existence. Special attention in the article is given to the episode with the Sun presented to the characters by the scientists of the Institute of Solar physics that is replete with the symbolic meaning. In E. Uspensky’s tale “Uncle Fyodor, his Dog and his Cat” adult and children levels of meaning do not exist separately but interact and penetrate one into another.