МИФ И РЕАЛЬНОСТЬ В ПОВЕСТИ МАРКА ЕФЕТОВА «ПИСЬМО НА ПАНЦИРЕ»

Abstract

The article analyses the multi-dimensional structure of Mark Efetov’s story “The Letter on Turtle Shell”, which combines the features of a vacation story, the elements of an adventure novel and myth. The realistic story of creating the most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR is supplemented with cosmogonic and evangelical myths and cultural and literary myths about Kitezh, the Blue Bird and is superimposed on the socialist realistic myth about “big family”. Defence of the Pioneer camp from fascists is considered through the lenses of the ancient heroic myth, the Crimean etiological myths about the appearance of Adalary rocks and the historical and cultural myth about miraculous escape from the enemies by jumping from the rock; the “stone sailor” story creates a new mythologeme tracing its origin to the Bronze Horseman, Bashmachkin’s ghost, the Mermaid image, etc. The current realistic story is interpreted through the prism of the solar myth and the author’s neo-myth.