Two Russian novels about “Russian” Germans
Автор: Bakalov A.S., Bakalova Z.N.
Рубрика: Гуманитарные науки
Статья в выпуске: 73 т.22, 2020 года.
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Article contains an analysis of problems and style of two Russian novels about German settlers on the Low Volga shores (18th century) and their descendants (20th century). The first of the book is a historical novel “Icebergs of Colonization” by A. Schneider-Strem’akova created on the basis of a chronicle diary of her ancestor A.Schneider (18th century) and edited together with the ancestor’s diary in Russia (2011, 2014) and Germany (2014). Her novel tracks down the history of the Volga colony Marienthal (now settlement Sovetsky) and is dedicated to problems of its adaptation to Russian conditions. The artificial time of her opus is 1764 till the beginning of 19th century. This book is being compared with the novel “My own Children” by G.Yakhina (2020) which is a rather specific chronicle of another German Volga colony Gnadenthal (now Gennadyevo) during two Soviet prewar decades. The plot of Yakhina’s novel reveals the family tragedy of the teacher Yacob Bach on the background of the disaster in his colony and the common tragedy of German settlements in Soviet Russia at all. The analysis exposes common features of both compared novels and their mental and stylistic difference.
Volga, schneider, yahina, markes, mariental, gnadental, century, ice berg, tale-teller, historical novel, germans, poem, colony, children, events, reality, magic realism, myth, steep
Короткий адрес: https://sciup.org/148313003
IDR: 148313003 | DOI: 10.37313/2413-9645-2020-22-73-41-46