I. O. Prikhodchenko
pisosenko@mail.ru
Musakhan Kanapyanov Higher College of the Pavlodar Pedagogical University, Pavlodar, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dostoevsky Omsk State University, Omsk, Russian Federation
The local text of Pavlodar in the memoirs of А. V. Mil’
‘‘Рeople and Destinies. Memories’’
Abstract: This article is devoted to the current direction of modern literary criticism, the local text, in particular,
its features in the literary tradition of the image of Pavlodar. The study was conducted on the material in the memoirs
‘‘People and Destinies. Memories’’ by Abram Veniaminovich Mil, who, having spent the 1930s in Pavlodar, left unique
memories of the city’s life in the pre-war period. The study of the Pavlodar local text in Mil’s memoirs was made in three
aspects: natural-geographical, chronotopic and social-domestic. The main method in the study was the analysis of motives,
as a result of which the assumption was made: the literary local text of Pavlodar in Mil’s prose is based on two closely
related intersecting leitmotifs, namely borderlinity and provinciality, which are expressed in the text through particular
motives embodying various hypostases of the locality: city-border, city-edge of the world, city-dream, city-past, city-village,
city-prison, and others. The conclusions are based on numerous quotations from the work. The article is an attempt at a
scientific description and analysis of A.V. Mil’s memoirs that has not been undertaken by anyone before and, being one of
the first in the framework of the study of the Pavlodar literary local text, can serve as a foundation for further research in
this area
Keywords: image of a city, local text, province, Pavlodar, memoirs.
Paper submitted: August 16, 2023.
For citation: Prikhodchenko I. O. (2024) The local text of Pavlodar in the memoirs of А. V. Mil’ ‘‘Рeople and Destinies.
Memories’’. Russian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 48–61. DOI: 10.57015/issn1998-5320.2024.18.1.5.
