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INTONATION AS THE WAY TO ACTUALISE THE MORAL PROBLEMS IN THE SHORT NOVEL “STROYBAT” BY SERGEY KALEDIN: FROM DOCUMENTALISM TO CONDITIONALITY // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2014. Issue 11 (152). P. 109-114

Social and domestic background of the short novel “Stroybat” (Construction Battalion) today is archaic, but the problems of betrayal, the preservation of culture in a hostile environment, youthful irresponsibility remain up to date. The story representing retelling of events on behalf of the character, is richly intoned and intonation gives topical character to its main subjects. Sergey Kaledin builds his story at the intersection of many voice streams: through the detached comment of an “alien” character, combination of exalted and everyday speech, alien words, chronotop “cutins”, playing with the rhythm and text density. The art world of the story is actively sated with the cultural and paracultural signs which today have become part of “the Soviet myth”. In reader's perception they also don't contribute to dokumentalizm of “Stroybat”, and on the contrary, promote his perception as parables about the good and evil. The system of the speech creates a feeling of convention of terrible details of stroybat as a social phenomenon and allows the reader to focus on the inner life of the character.

Keywords: Russian short novel of the 90s, actualisation, “soviet clichй”, dismissal, absurdist conventionality