“WORD FLESH” OF CHILDREN DIARIES

Abstract

On the example of children’ personal diaries in the 20th century, the article deals with one of the most important directions of modern humanity sciences connected with particularities of the genre of a personal diary the status of which is still being discussed. The article contains points of view of different researchers on this problem. Special attention is paid to diaries of the children of the families of M. Tsvetaeva and S. Efron and children’s diaries of the war period which allow understanding a complicated life of Russia in 1930-40s: personal documents in this case become historical ones. Their analysis was carried out under the slogan of Y. Tyunyanov “…to make holes in the document” to clarify it. The analysis of the diaries showed the role of the author’s intention in creating a diary text: in spite of the age differences in the life of its authors there is a moral carcase connected with their ethic images. Our approach will be interesting for specialists who work in the field of peculiarities of documentary literary genres.