Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки (Jul 2015)
The Function of the Chinese Theme in the Provincial Prose of Galina Klimovskaya (with Reference to The Blue Smoke of China)
Abstract
The article analyzes the auto-documental story of the contemporary Siberian writer G. Klimovskaya The Blue Smoke of China which is the first one in her book of prose bearing the same name. The story is devoted to the biographer’s recollections of her childhood. The article studies the sources and semantic expansion of the Chinese theme which is made part of the space of a provincial text through a child’s memory and also the elements that connect the story with the tradition of existential prose. The article describes the functional meaning of the Chinese theme as a connection between the child’s celebration of life and the feeling of fear coming from the era between the 1930s and the 1940s.
