Повесть М. Бременера «Пусть не сошлось с ответом!» (1956) и программа обновления педагогики и литературы в советском обществе начала «оттепели»

Детские чтения. 2016. Т. 10. № 2. С. 53–69.

Maiofis M.

Based on extensive archival research, the article analyzes the forgotten work of the mid-1950s, a novella by Max Bremener, Let it Not Match the Answer! Published in the most exciting moment of the “Thaw” era (November, 1956), this novella can be considered as a reflection of and response to the earlier (1953-1954) discussions on the problem of “deception and truth” in children’s literature. Bremener radically transformed the very genre of the “school novella”, although he did not succeed in his search for the appropriate literary form, which could have encompassed harsh social critique of the Soviet school system as an institution in crisis. Nevertheless, the novella provides us with the very interesting material for evaluating the current crisis in Russian education.

 

Keywords: "оттепель", школьная повесть, Khrushchev's thaw, Лидия Чуковская, Max Bremener, Lidiia Chukovskaia, school novella, moral renewal, social critique, Макс Бременер, социальный критицизм, моральное обновление