Manuscripts by A. M. Volkov as keys to understanding the development of the author’s concept of the fairy tale “The Wizard of the Emerald City”
DOI: 10.23951/1609-624X-2024-4-154-168
The article is dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the publication of the first edition of A. M. Volkov’s fairy tale “The Wizard of the Emerald City” (1939). The work uses for the first time the handwritten collection of the children’s writer A.M. Volkov, stored at Tomsk State Pedagogical University. Manuscripts allow one to penetrate into the writer’s workshop, to trace the formation and development of an idea and the course of the creative process. A comparison of the structure of chapters in the 1936 manuscript and the 1939 edition made it possible to identify changes made to the composition (deletion, introduction of new ones, merging chapters). In addition, the article provides fragments of manuscripts from 1936, with which A. Volkov planned to supplement the text, but did not include them in the printed version of 1939. Analysis of the drafts gave an idea of A. Volkov’s work with character names. It was important for the writer to find equivalents to the names in F. Baum’s fairy tale, so that they would be understandable to the Russian-speaking reader and optimally reveal the character’s image. The writer worked on the largest number of name options for Scarecrow. Of particular interest is the manuscript of fragments of A. M. Volkov’s play “Flight to Fairyland” based on “The Wizard of the Emerald City”. The manuscript is introduced into scientific circulation for the first time and commented on. The diary entries of A. Volkov and the unusual image of Goodwin in fragments of the play (a black slave Uncle Joe who escaped from an exploiter) indicate that the writer tried to submit to circumstances, adapt to the requirements of censorship, inscribing a fairy tale plot into the traditions of social literature of the late 19th – first half XX century. However, the incompleteness of the play’s concept can be explained by both external (the onset of the “thaw”) and internal (unwillingness to obey the political situation) reasons. The manuscript of “Flight to Fairytale Land” is published in full in this issue of the magazine.
Keywords: memorial collection of children’s writer A. M. Volkova, manuscripts, “The Wizard of the Emerald City”, versions of the fairy tale, “Flight to Fairyland”
References:
1. Volkov A. Volshebnik Izumrudnogo goroda [The Wizard of Emerald City]. Moscow, Sovetskaya Rossiya Publ., 1960. 190 p. (in Russian).
2. Petrovskiy M. Knigi moyego detstva [Books of my childhood]. Moscow, 1986 (in Russian).
3. Begak B. Pravda skazki [True of fairy tale]. Moscow, Detskaya literatura Publ., 1989 (in Russian).
4. Khaber E. Strana Oz za zheleznym zanavesom [Oz behind the Iron Curtain]. Perevod s angliyskogo O. Myaehots. Moscow, Novoye literaturnoye obozreniye Publ., 2023. 304 p. (in Russian).
5. Khodakov E. “Volshebnik strany OZ” protiv “Volshebnika Izumrudnogo goroda”. Skhodstva i razlichiya [“The Wizard of Oz” vs. “The Wizard of Emerald City”. Similarities and differences] (in Russian). URL: https://dtf.ru/read/1882855-volshebnik-strany-ozprotiv-volshebnika-izumrudnogo-goroda-shodstva-i-razlichiya (accessed 13 January 2024).
6. Oz, Velikiy i Uzhasnyy vs Gudvin: serialy Aleksandra Volkova i Laymena F. Bauma [Oz the Great and Powerful vs Goodwin: series by Alexander Volkov and Lyman F. Baum] (in Russian). URL: https://fantlab.ru/forum/forum1page1/topic7576page15 (accessed 13 January 2024).
7. V chyom raznitsa mezhdu “Volshebnikom Izumrudnogo goroda” i “Volshebnikom strany Oz”? [What is the difference between The Wizard of Emerald City and The Wizard of Oz?] (in Russian). URL: https://emdt.ru/bez-antrakta/raznitsa-mezhdu-volshebnikom-izumrudnogo-goroda-i-volshebnikom-strany-oz (accessed 13 January 2024).
8. Galkina T. V. Neznakomyy Aleksandr Volkov v vospominaniyakh, pis’makh i dokumentakh [Unfamiliar Alexander Volkov in memoirs, letters and documents]. Tomsk, TSPU Publ., 2006. 270 p. (in Russian).
9. Grigoryan L. A. Lyudi i zveri: gradatsiya tsennosti zhizni zhivotnykh v skazochnom mire A. M. Volkova [People and animals: gradation of the value of animal life in the fairy-tale world of A. M. Volkova]. Kompleksnyye issledovaniya detstva – Comprehensive Child Studies, 2023, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 195–201 (in Russian).
10. Ilyash Yu. S. Kharakteristika personazhey literaturnoy skazki A. Volkova “Volshebnik Izumrudnogo goroda” [Characteristics of the characters in A. Volkov’s literary fairy tale “The Wizard of the Emerald City”]. Tendentsii razvitiya nauki i obrazovaniya, 2017, no. 24-1, pp. 20–21 (in Russian).
11. Omraan A. Kh. Aksiologicheskiye modeli avtorskikh skazok v russkoy literature kontsa 1930-kh – 1950-kh godov. Avtoref. dis. kand. filol. nauk [Axiological models of author’s fairy tales in Russian literature of the late 1930s – 1950s (L. Lagin, A. Volkov). Abstract of thesis cand. philol. sci.]. Voronezh, 2012. 23 p. (in Russian).
12. Vukolova E. R. Volshebstvo i tekhnicheskiy progress v tsikle A. M. Volkova “Volshebnik Izumrudnogo goroda” [Magic and technical progress in the cycle of A. M. Volkova “The Wizard of the Emerald City”]. Dni nauki studentov Vladimirskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta imeni Aleksandra Grigor’yevicha i Nikolaya Grigor’yevicha Stoletovykh: sbornik materialov nauchno-prakticheskikh konferentsiy. Vladimir, 18 marta 2019 goda [Science Days for students of Vladimir State University named after Alexander Grigorievich and Nikolai Grigorievich Stoletov: collection of materials from scientific and practical conferences. Vladimir, March 18, 2019]. Vladimir, Vladimirskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet imeni A. G. i N. G. Stoletovykh Publ., 2019. Pp. 2975–2981 (in Russian).
13. Goncharko D. N., Goncharko O. Yu. Antichnyye, vizantiyskiye i novoyevropeyskiye arkhetipy v skazke A. M. Volkova “Volshebnik Izumrudnogo goroda” [Ancient, Byzantine and New European archetypes in the fairy tale by A. M. Volkova “The Wizard of the Emerald City”]. Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta – Tomsk State University Journal, 2020, vol. 454, pp. 55–66 (in Russian).
14. Memorial’nyy kabinet A. M. Volkova [Memorial office of A. M. Volkova]. O.F. 191/1/15 (in Russian).
15. Korman B. O. Izucheniye teksta khudozhestvennogo proizvedeniya [Studying the text of a work of art]. Moscow, Prosveshcheniye Publ., 1972. 110 p. (in Russian).
16. Chernoviki “Volshebnika” [Drafts of “The Wizard”]. Memorial’naya kollektsiya A. M. Volkova [Memorial collection of A. M. Volkova]. O.F. 191/1/18 (in Russian).
17. Vinogradova N. V. Imya personazha v khudozhestvennom tekste: Funktsional’no-semanticheskaya tipologiya. Dis. kand. filol. nauk [Character’s name in a literary text: Functional-semantic typology. Dis. cand. philol. sci.]. Tver, 2001. 213 p. (in Russian).
18. Grigoryan L. A. Sopostavleniye redaktsiy skazki “Volshebnik Izumrudnogo goroda” A. M. Volkova: poslepublikatsionnyy etap dorabotki teksta [Comparison of editions of the fairy tale “The Wizard of the Emerald City” by A. M. Volkov: post-publication stage of text revision]. Detskaya kniga v tsifrovuyu epokhu: sbornik trudov po materialam Vserossiyskoy s mezhdunarodnym uchastiyem nauchno-prakticheskoy konferentsii. Tomsk, 2–3 dekabrya 2021 goda [Children’s book in the digital era: collection of works based on the materials of the All-Russian scientific and practical conference with international participation, Tomsk, December 2–3, 2021]. Tomsk, TSPU Publ., 2022. P. 8–19 (in Russian).
19. Mineralova I. G. Detskaya literatura [Children’s literature]. Moscow, Vlados Publ., 2002. 176 p. (in Russian).
20. Bakhtin M. M. Formy vremeni i khronotopa v romane: ocherki po istoricheskoy poetike [Forms of time and chronotope in the novel: essays on historical poetics]. Bakhtin M. M. Voprosy literatury i ehstetiki [Questions of literature and aesthetics]. Moscow, Khudozhestvennaya literatura Publ., 1975. Pp. 234–407 (in Russian).
21. Vstavka k stranitse 10 [“Volshebnik Izumrudnogo goroda”] [Insert to page 10 [“The Wizard of the Emerald City”]]. Memorial’naya kollektsiya A. M. Volkova [Memorial collection of A. M. Volkova]. O.F. 191/1/17 (in Russian).
22. Spyn K. M. Psikhologicheskaya dostovernost’ obrazov skazochnykh personazhey (na primere skazok A. M. Volkova) [Psychological authenticity of images of fairy-tale characters (using the example of fairy tales by A. M. Volkov)]. Detskaya kniga v tsifrovuyu ehpokhu: sbornik trudov po materialam Vserossiyskoy s mezhdunarodnym uchastiyem nauchno-prakticheskoy konferentsii, Tomsk, 2–3 dekabrya 2021 goda [Children’s book in the digital era: collection of works based on the materials of the All-Russian scientific and practical conference with international participation, Tomsk, December 2–3, 2021]. Tomsk, TSPU Publ., 2022. Pр. 20–36 (in Russian).
23. Vstavka k stranitse 23 [“Volshebnik Izumrudnogo goroda”] [Insert to page 23 [“Wizard of the Emerald City”]. Memorial’naya kollektsiya A. M. Volkova [Memorial collection of A. M. Volkov]. O.F. 191/1/16 (in Russian).
24. Volkov A. Volshebnik Izumrudnogo goroda [The Wizard of the Emerald City]. Moscow – Leningrad, Izd-vo detskoy literatury Publ., 1939.123 p. (in Russian).
25. Otkrytka. Stsena ispolneniya zavetnykh zhelaniy iz skazki A. M. Volkova “Volshebnik Izumrudnogo goroda” [Postcard. The scene of the fulfillment of cherished desires from the fairy tale by A. M. Volkov “The Wizard of the Emerald City”]. Memorial’naya kollektsiya A. M. Volkova [Memorial collection of A. M. Volkov]. 1962. O.F. 191/2/348 (in Russian).
26. Vypiski k “Gudvinu Velikomu i Uzhasnomu” [Extracts from “Goodwin the Great and Terrible”]. Memorial’naya kollektsiya A. M. Volkova [Memorial collection of A. M. Volkov]. O.F. 191/1/19 (in Russian).
27. Otraslevoy kantselyarskiy muzey [Industry stationery museum] (in Russian). URL: https://old-stationery.kanzoboz.ru/ (accessed 14 May 2024).
29. Zarubezhnaya detskaya literatura: uchebnoye posobiye [Foreign children’s literature: tutorial]. Eds N. V. Budur, E. I. Ivanova, S. A. Nikolayeva, T. A. Chesnokova. Moscow, Akademiya Publ., 2000. 304 p. (in Russian).
30. Igolkina D. I. Roman G. Bicher-Stou “Khizhina dyadi Toma” v russkoy kritike i literaturovedenii [G. Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in Russian criticism and literary criticism]. Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo pedagogicheskogo universiteta – TSPU Bulletin, 2010, vol. 8, pp. 57–60 (in Russian).
31. Khellman B. Skazka i byl’: Istoriya russkoy detskoy literatury [Fairy tale and true story: History of Russian children’s literature]. Translation from English O. Bukhina. Moscow, Novoye obozreniye Publ., 2016. 560 p. (in Russian).
32. Zarubezhnaya detskaya literatura: uchebnik [Foreign children’s literature: textbook] / sost. I. S. Chernyavskaya. Moscow, Prosveshcheniye Publ., 1982. 559 p. (in Russian).
33. Aksenov A. V. Lis Renar i Bratets Krolik: trikster v Evrope i Amerike [Fox Renard and Brother Rabbit: trickster in Europe and America]. Ezhegodnaya bogoslovskaya konferentsiya Pravoslavnogo Svyato-Tikhonovskogo gumanitarnogo universiteta [Annual theological conference of the Orthodox St. Tikhon’s Humanitarian University]. 2015. No. 25. Pp. 261–263 (in Russian).
34. Meletinskiy E. M. Kul’turnyy geroy [Culture hero]. Mify narodov mira. Entsiklopediya [Myths of the peoples of the world. Encyclopedia]. Vol. 2. Moscow, Sovetskaya entsiklopediya Publ., 1982. Pp. 25–28 (in Russian).
( 496.34 kB ) 
( 485.7 kB )
Issue: 4, 2024
Series of issue: Issue 4
Rubric: TO THE 85TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF A. M. VOLKOV’S FAIRY TALE “THE WIZARD OF THE EMERALD CITY”
Pages: 154 — 168
Downloads: 304