TY - JOUR

T1 - Герой и город в пьесах эпохи «оттепели»

AU - Семенова, Наталья Валерьевна

PY - 2024/5/3

Y1 - 2024/5/3

N2 - The article analyzes the impact of the urban environment on the interpersonal relationships of the characters in the plays of the late Thaw, examines the process of formation of subjectivity. The material represents two crucial texts of the mid-1960s – “A Warsaw Melody” by Leonid Zorin and “104 pages about love” by Edward Radzinsky. These plays have a lot common features, especially its entourage: the plot displays several meetings of a couple of lovers in various public spaces of a contemporary city. However, the relationship of the characters with the urban environment differs in the melodramas. Gelya and Victor from “A Warsaw Melody” create a polylocal urban text: they appropriate Moscow, turning it into their home, which they then lose. At the same time, the characters are opposed to each other in terms of the way they perceive space (Victor is a “flaneur”, a man of the crowd, Helene is cosmopolitan and feels unbound to any particular site), which ultimately anticipates their separation. In the play “104 pages about love”, the public and the private spheres collide each other, there is an erosion of personal space: Natasha and Electron Evdokimov are always in the focus of collective’s attention. The sounds and noises of the city reproduce the everyday life of the 1960s and become the flagship of Soviet modernity. Although the personages embodying the new Thaw generation do not look like elegant models in the capital’s environment. They are haunted by worries and regrets, and are constantly in search of authenticity and purity. The solution of the contradiction between public and private spheres is the frankest dialogue between Natasha and Electron, which turns out to be possible only after the death of the heroine inside Evdokimov’s mind and outside the bustle of a big city.

AB - The article analyzes the impact of the urban environment on the interpersonal relationships of the characters in the plays of the late Thaw, examines the process of formation of subjectivity. The material represents two crucial texts of the mid-1960s – “A Warsaw Melody” by Leonid Zorin and “104 pages about love” by Edward Radzinsky. These plays have a lot common features, especially its entourage: the plot displays several meetings of a couple of lovers in various public spaces of a contemporary city. However, the relationship of the characters with the urban environment differs in the melodramas. Gelya and Victor from “A Warsaw Melody” create a polylocal urban text: they appropriate Moscow, turning it into their home, which they then lose. At the same time, the characters are opposed to each other in terms of the way they perceive space (Victor is a “flaneur”, a man of the crowd, Helene is cosmopolitan and feels unbound to any particular site), which ultimately anticipates their separation. In the play “104 pages about love”, the public and the private spheres collide each other, there is an erosion of personal space: Natasha and Electron Evdokimov are always in the focus of collective’s attention. The sounds and noises of the city reproduce the everyday life of the 1960s and become the flagship of Soviet modernity. Although the personages embodying the new Thaw generation do not look like elegant models in the capital’s environment. They are haunted by worries and regrets, and are constantly in search of authenticity and purity. The solution of the contradiction between public and private spheres is the frankest dialogue between Natasha and Electron, which turns out to be possible only after the death of the heroine inside Evdokimov’s mind and outside the bustle of a big city.

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/bc26e560-7a9b-32c1-9e81-9ede3ca59dc6/

U2 - 10.47475/1999-5407-2024-66-1-12-20

DO - 10.47475/1999-5407-2024-66-1-12-20

M3 - статья

VL - 66

SP - 12

EP - 20

JO - ЧЕЛЯБИНСКИЙ ГУМАНИТАРИЙ

JF - ЧЕЛЯБИНСКИЙ ГУМАНИТАРИЙ

SN - 1999-5407

IS - 1

M1 - 2

ER -