title: The paradox of Petkevich (on the peculiarities of the semantic structure of the memoir book by T. V. Petkevich Life is an Unpaired Boot)
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metadata.value: Bolshev, Aleksandr O.
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metadata.value: 2019-01-28T14:58:39Z
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metadata.value: 2019-01-28T14:58:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.value: Bolshev A. O. [The paradox of Petkevich (on the peculiarities of the semantic structure of the memoir book by T. V. Petkevich Life is an Unpaired Boot)]. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2018, 15 (4): 651–658.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu09.2018.412
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15348
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metadata.value: The object of consideration is the autobiographical work of Tamara Petkevich Life is an Unpaired
  Boot. Specifically, we are talking about the paradox which constitutes the basis of the
  image of the heroine-narrator’s father — Vladislav Petkevich. This follower of the Communist
  idea, who was characterized by exceptional moral purity, was sadistically cruel towards his eldest
  daughter Tamara: he beat her with a whip for no reason. The attempts of this confessional
  book’s author to find any rational and logical reasons for whip executions failed. This kind of
  mysteries remaining unresolved is extremely rare in the genre of memoir literature. The paradoxes
  can only exist on the periphery of the autobiographical text and are not directly connected
  with the main line of the traceable life. The young autobiographical character, a participant
  of reproduced events, may be ignorant of the logic of his own fate, but the sophisticated
  author-narrator looking into these events closely through the depth of time clearly sees their
  fundamental essence. This is true especially for authors who like T. Petkevich went through the Stalinist prisons and camps. As a result, the memoirs of T. Petkevich detect “the progressive
  (procedural) determination”, which, according to Gary Morson, constitutes a foundation
  of such classics as Eugene Onegin by A. Pushkin, The Idiot and Demons by F. Dostoevsky. The
  factor of demiurgic uncertainty of the authors plays an important role in each of these books.
  Behind the inability of the Petkevich’s heroine to unravel the mystery of the irrational cruelty
  that her kind father expressed towards her, we find authentic (and not fictional) author’s anxiety.
  Obviously, it is this particular life-likeness that has led to the resulting impact of the book
  on the reader.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 15; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: T. V. Petkevich
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: autobiography
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: fate
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: paradox
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cruelty
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The paradox of Petkevich (on the peculiarities of the semantic structure of the memoir book by T. V. Petkevich Life is an Unpaired Boot)
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