Arkady Konchevsky’s Crimean short stories
https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2025-80-2-148-153
Abstract
The article deals with Arkady Karlovich Konchevsky’s eight short stories, united by the Crimean theme. Their creation is connected with the singer-ethnographer’s long-term collection, study and promotion of the Crimean peoples’ folklore and music. The publication of Konchevsky’s short stories in the magazines “Vsemirnyi sledopyt”, “Vsemirnyi turist”, “Mir priklyuchenii”, “Vokrug sveta”, “Na sushe i na more” requires consideration in the context of the local history movement active development and the formation of cultural and educational tourism in the USSR in the 1920s. The presence of certain genre features allows us to assign Konchevsky’s short stories to the local history short story or essay of a mixed type genre subdivision about natural, historical, ethnographic and economic aspects of the southern coast of Crimea. The language of the stories is close to the colloquial type. There are real people behind the characters, and the narrator is identical with the biographical author. The inclusion of legends and fairy tales that poeticise reality in the composition of short stories is their integral feature. The fictional nature is weakened, and the representational function clearly prevails over the aesthetic one. In connection with the system of mass tourism formation, Konchevsky’s stories are of an obvious ideological and educational character and are largely determined by the young Soviet society’s social objectives.
About the Author
A. E. Lobkov
Sevastopol State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Lobkov Aleksandr Evgenyevitch, Ph.D. in Philology, Associate Professor,
33 Universitetskaya Str., Sevastopol, 299053
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Lobkov A.E. Arkady Konchevsky’s Crimean short stories. Philology and Culture. 2025;(2):148-153. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2025-80-2-148-153
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