Article

Name: The image of alma mater in the memoir novel by E. Grishkovets “Theater of despair. Desperate theater”

Authors: A. L. Kalashnikova, N. V. Nalegach, K.V. Sinegubova

Kemerovo State University, Kemerovo, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: The paper examines the image of Kemerovo State University in the novel by E. Grishkovets “Theater of despair. Desperate theater.” A comparative analysis reveals the specifics of KemSU relevant to the novel and its qualitative difference from other universities in Kemerovo. We can see how the student hero gets used to the University, becomes a part of it, and joins the University world. In the novel, this communion is shown as a capture, involvement, not always reflected by the hero. There are several semiotic places associated with the hero’s philological education and the creative life of students in the space of KemSU. Kemerovo State University embodies the most significant values of freedom, creativity, love, and enthusiasm in the artistic axiology of the novel. It is the place of special laws, emotional relation-ships, and connections, in a word, of the University spirit. The connection between the University and the theater in KemSU appears as natural and organic (“the University loved its theater”), in contrast to other universities, where the theater is an alien, fundamentally super-fluous element. In addition, the image of the theater in the novel opposes the space of an industrial city. The paper thus traces the exceptional role of the University in the emergence of love for the theater and the hero’s choice of the theater field. By its role in the novel, KemSU is literally realized as Alma mater, “nursing mother,” contributing to the creative development of the hero primarily related to the philological theme in the novel.

Keywords: E. Grishkovets, novel, university, image of the university, Kemerovo State University

Bibliography:

Ascheulova I. V., Karpova G. I., Khodanen L. A., Aleksyutina V. A. Literatura Kuzbassa 20 – nachala 21 veka: uchebnoe posobie [Literature of the Kuzbass of the 20th – beginning of the 21st century: a textbook]. Kemerovo, KemSU Publ., 2013, 180 p.

Ashcheulova I. V. Obraz Kemerovo v povesti E. Grishkovtsa “Reki” [The Image of Kemerovo in the story of E. Grishkovets “The Rivers”]. In: Balibalovskie chteniya [Balibalov readings]. Kemerovo, 2018, iss. 8–9, pp. 137–141.

Iskhanova Z. S. Motiv detstva v povesti Evg. Grishkovtsa “Reki” [Motif of childhood in the story by Evg. Grishkovets “The Rivers”]. In: Perspektivy razvitiya nauch- nykh issledovaniy v XXI veke: Sb. materialov IV Mezhdunar. nauch.-prakt. konf. [Pro-spects for the development of scientific research in the 21st century: Coll. of materials of the 4th International sci. and pract. conf.]. Makhachkala, 2014, pp. 148–151.

Iskhanova Z. S. Povsednevnost’ i sotsial'nye illyuzii v romane Evgeniya Grishkovtsa “Rubashka” [Everyday Life and social illusions in the novel “The shirt” by E. Grish- kovets]. Kazan science. 2016, no. 12, pp. 67–71.

Markelova A. V. Problema samoidentifikatsii v romane E. Grishkovtsa “Rubashka” [The problem of self-identification in the novel “The shirt” by E. Grishkovets]. In: Slovo. Slovesnost’. Slovesnik: Materialy mezhregion. nauch.-prakt. konf. prepodava- teley i studentov [Slovo. Slovesnost’: Materials of the inter-regional sci. and pract. conf. of teachers and students]. Ryazan, 2016, pp. 199–202.

Rtishcheva O. V. Simvolicheskoe soderzhanie konteksta russkoy provintsii v tvor- chestve E. Grishkovtsa [Symbolic content of the context of the Russian province in the works of E. Grishkovets]. Yaroslavl Pedagogical Bulletin. 2018, no. 2, pp. 222–227.

Shchukina D. A. Obraz pedagoga v sovremennoy russkoy literature (E. Grishkovets “Dekan Dankov” i E. Chizhova “Kroshki Tsakhes”) [The Image of a teacher in modern Russian literature (E. Grishkovets “Dean Dankov” and E. Chizhova “Tsakhes Babes”)]. In: Russkiy yazyk i literatura v prostranstve mirovoy kul'tury: Materialy 13 Kongressa MAPRYaL: V 15 t. [Russian language and literature in the space of world culture mate-rials of the 13 Congress of MAPRYAL: in 15 vols.]. St. Petersburg, 2015, vol. 14, pp. 715–720.

Sinegubova K. V. Spetsifika initsiatsii v monodrame E. Grishkovtsa “Kak ya s”el sobaku” [The specifics of initiation in the monodrama “How I ate a dog” by E. Grishkovet]. Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. 2014, no. 3–1 (59), pp. 181–184.

Sirotkina T. A. Povsednevnaya zhizn’ rossiyan v memuarnom romane E. Grishkovtsa “Teatr otchayaniya. Otchayannyy teatr” [Everyday life of Russians in the memoir novel “Theater of despair. Desperate theater” by E. Grishkovets]. In: Slavyanskaya kul’tura: istoki, traditsii, vzaimodeystvie. 20 Kirillo-Mefodievskie chteniya: Materialy Mezhdunar. nauch.-prakt. konf. (v ramkakh Mezhdunarodnogo Kirillo-Mefodievskogo festivalya slavyanskikh yazykov i kul’tur) [Slavic culture: origins, traditions, interaction. 20 Cyril and Methodius readings: Materials of the Intern. sci. and pract. conf. (within the framework of the International Cyril and Methodius festival of Slavic languages and cultures)]. Moscow, 2019, pp. 609–611.

Vasil’eva-Shal’neva T. B. Sintez khudozhestvennogo i dokumental’nogo nachal v proizvedenii Evgeniya Grishkovtsa “A...A” [Synthesis of artistic and documentary principles in the work of Eugene Grishkovets “A...A”]. Philology and culture. 2014, no. 3 (37), pp. 144–147.