Quoted Words as the Form of Childhood Conscience in the Novel by Valentin Kataev, A White Sail Gleams

Abstract

The article by Maria Litovskaya (Ekaterinburg) entitled «Quoted Words as the Form of Childhood Conscience in the Novel by Valentin Kataev, A White Sail Gleams» is dedicated to the analysis of the specific syntax of Kataev’s text. In his 1936 children’s novel, the author frequently uses quotation marks to identify words not known to his adolescent character. This particular device, which is typical for the modernist tradition, is analyzed in the context of autobiographical narratives about children and teenagers from the 1930s–1990s.