May I Not Finish This Book? Some Notes on New Children’s Literature

Abstract

In her essay, «May I Not Finish This Book? Some Notes on New Children’s Literature», the writer, translator, and mother of a school-aged boy, Elena Lenkovskaya (Ekaterinburg), discusses the new tendencies of contemporary translated literature for pre-teens. Lenkovskaya invites the potential audience to a discussion on the quality and content of these publications which, according to her, contradict Russia’s cultural tradition, as well as misaddress the potential audience of these translations.