Information about the author:
Mikhail A. Perepelkin
Mikhail A. Perepelkin (Samara, Russia), DSc in Philology, Professor, Department of Russian and Foreign Literature and Public Relations, Academician S.P. Korolev Samara National Research University.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6102-6947
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Abstract:
The article examines Yu. Dombrovsky’s story “The Swan Princess” (1973), the action of which takes place in the middle of 1920s at the dachas “ten kilometers from the city” of Samara. Analyzing the artistic space of the story, the author of the article focuses his attention on such locations as the garden, pond, bathhouse, bridges, cave, Nagilevsky forest, Gorinov’s village, Samara, Moscow, Mariupol and some others, coming to the conclusion that in almost all cases space is characterized by instability, fluidity and instability. Next, we examine the system of characters in the story and the points of view associated with them on what is happening, ranging from the prosaic and banal interpretation of the series of events to the out-of-theordinary and fantastic. As a result, it is concluded that the plot of “one dacha story” told by the hero of “The Swan Princess” is organized precisely by this duality of everything that happened and is equally close to both the everyday and the miraculous.