"My Friend, Ol'ga": On Rereading V. Kiselev's Novel The Girl and the Bird Plane. (2nd October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Savkina, Irina
• Is Part Of: Russian studies in literature. Volume 55:Number 3/4(2019)
• Page Start: 218
• Page End: 232
• Publication Date: 2019-10-02
• Subjects: Soviet; young adult literature; Thaw; Kiselev; heroine; Literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Periodicals; 891.7
• DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2019.1853432
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1061-1975

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article examines Vladimir Kiselev's young-adult novel, The Girl and the Bird Plane [Devochka i ptitselet], written in 1966, toward the end of the Thaw. While critics in the late 1960s and the screenwriters for the novel's film version ( The Transitional Age [Perekhodnyi vozrast], 1968, directed by Richard Viktorov) interpreted the work as centering on the complex relationships existing between generations, a contemporary rereading based on categories developed within the framework of gender studies brings the novel's exploration of Soviet-era sex-role conflicts into sharp relief.