CHAPTERS ON SALSK IN THE NOVEL BY V. KAVERIN “THE OPEN BOOK”
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https://doi.org/10.18522/1995-0640-2025-4-95-106
Abstract. The article offers an analysis of the poetics chapters about Salsk town of the novel “The Open Book” by V. Kaverin. The steppe space in the novel is traditionally depicted for Russian classical literature: unfolds an image of a wide and spacious steppe unfolds before the reader. The steppe serves as an initiation space in which the main character matures in professional, scientific and personal relationships in the artistic world of the novel. The model of the steppe space of trial, which is characteristic for the national prose, is combined in the Kaverin’s novel with a social-realistic pathos: in the steppe man fights with nature in the name of labor feat. In addition, chapters on Salsk have the genre characteristics of the industrial novel. It becomes clear that one of the pretexts of the novel “The Open Book” can be considered a collection of travel short stories, “The Prologue” by V. Kaverin, published after the writer’s trip to the steppes of Salsk-town in 1930.
Key words: Kaverin, “The Open Book”, steppe, steppe text, industrial novel
Acknowledgements: the publication was prepared as part of the implementation of the state assignment of the Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences for 2025, No. 125011200150-2.
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