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The autobiographical work of Lydia Chukovskaya 'To the Memory of My Childhood' plays an important role in her literary output as, contrary to her works of fiction ('Sofia Petrovna' and 'Descent Into Water'), it presents the real Home. The Home being the safe shelter that ceased to exist in Russia after the October Revolution. The negation of all traditional values and of the way of living symbolised...
In the works of Lydia Chukovskaya and Yurii Trifonov, child as a symbol loses its traditional meaning and acquires a new one. In stories entitled 'Sofia Petrovna' and 'Submersion', Chukovskaya paints the image of harmed children, orphans in the mental and literal meaning of the word, growing up on the 'arid soil', in the realm of slavery. Their fate is becoming an accusation of the totalitarian system...
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