REPRESENTATION OF CHILDREN’S LITERARY WORK IN NOVELS FOR TEENAGERS

Abstract

The article examines the representation of literary creativity in contemporary prose for teenagers. The author of the article analyzes the novella by the Russian writer Nina Dashevskaya Timofey: Bloknot (“Timofey: Notepad”) (2020), as well as the novels Privet, volki! (“Czesc, Wilki!”) (2014) by the Polish writer Dorota Kasjanovic and Kak ya nechayanno napisala knigu (“Hoe ik per ongeluk een boek schreef”) (2014) by the Dutch writer Annette Heising, which were translated into Russian in 2018 and 2021. The main characters in these books are teenagers who are somehow engaged in literary composition and try their hand at writing. Each author offers a different concept of children’s literary creation. What they have in common is their attitude to creative writing as a cultural and therapeutic practice and a way of getting to know the world. This article analyzes techniques for the representation of creative writing in the work for teenagers, suggests techniques for interpreting the “message” to a young reader about what is literary creativity, what place it has in the social environment, what role it can play in a person’s life, in the development of his independence. The focus of the author of the article is on the figures of teenage writers, their mentors, and the functions that the portrayal of literary creativity performs in the novels.

Keywords: literary representation, teenage literature, Nina Dashevskaya, Dorota Kasjanovic, Annette Heising