THE IMAGE OF THE EAST IN THE WORK OF THE MODERN RUSSIAN-SPEAKING WRITER DINA RUBINA

Аннотация

The purpose of this article is to analyze the image of the East in the work of Dina Rubina on the example of the story “Babka”. The theme of the East has become one of the important themes of the work of the famous writer Dina Rubina, who found her special reflection in the novel “On the sunny side of the Street”, in the stories “Babka”, “Gypsy”, “Killer”. KEYWORDS: - Image, story, hero, motive, composition. memories of the Tashkent period of Babka Rachel’s I NTRODUCTION life. Interest in the work of Dina Rubina exhausted due The title character of the story is Rachel to the depth of the themes and conflicts covered in Koganovskaya, presented through the eyes of her her works, many of which, of course, raised by granddaughter of the author-narrator. The title of writers more than once. Nevertheless, it was on the the story is quite obvious: babka is the main person pages of D. Rubina’s works that they sounded with in the fate of the writer, who made a huge new force: the theme of war and peace, the theme of contribution to the education of his granddaughter, Jewish life. The theme of the continuation of the and according to the author’s own admission that it individual in the history of the family, the theme of was she, babka, “...was the first unobtrusive style national identity, and the theme of the East – the consultant for me” [5, p.2] the meaning of the title main ideological and thematic platform of Rubina’s becomes clear. The author describes the difficult works. fate of Grandmother Rachel: during the war, she went through three evacuations “through the The story “Babka” is one of the most interesting Caucasus and Kazakhstan” and delivered to stories by Dina Rubina, imbued with childhood Tashkent. The image of the grandmother was CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGICAL 25 SCIENCES ISSN – 2767-3758 https://masterjournals.com/index.php/crjps CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES 2(9): 25-28, September 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37547/philological-crjps-02-09-06 ISSN 2767-3758 ©2021 Master Journals Accepted20thSeptember, 2021 & Published 25thSeptember, 2021 supplemented by memories that the model Rachel hospitable and diverse Tashkent sheltered was married had two children and was a thousands of orphaned children of different nations. homemaker. The author, carefully preserving in For which, later, in many works, he was awarded memory the talents of the grandmother-inspired the paraphrase “bread city”, “city of Friendship”, singing, artistic representation of various situations, etc. It becomes clear that the hero has the warmest the ability to tell a funny story-lamentably exclaims and kindest associations with Tashkent. No, wonder “...how did you manage to thoughtlessly screw up the word “Kashgar” in the common people of such an object? Yes, a great actor and, perhaps, a Kashgar, in translation from the Kyrgyz language wonderful writer died in it!” [5, p. 3]. The author means “cashmere”, and the meaning of the word cites in the text Babkin’s wonderful parables, small takes on softness, warmth. stories-anecdotes, instructing stories, transmitting, which were truly a storehouse of folk wisdom and Note that the first lesson of creativity the author for the author is childish imagination, moments of received lying on a tapchan with her grandmother wonderful stories and became, apparently, the in an ordinary Tashkent house “... adobe shacks, impetus for word making. made after the war in a hurry...” [5, p.3] and watching a burning candle, imagined the struggle of The story takes place in old Tashkent: “It was the elements with time and drew conclusions: “... already other times and other lands: not the fertile create the world with fire, mold it from scalding hot pre-war Ukraine, but the sultry pandemonium of flesh-it’s too late to change when it freezes...” [5, adobe Tashkent, where-through the Caucasus and p.4]. Therefore, the adobe shacks of Tashkent gave Kazakhstan – my relatives were evacuated at the the writer those unforgettable moments of beginning of the war and where they were stuck childhood that she cannot forget. In the text, we also forever...” [5, p.3], but at the very beginning of the see a reference to the historical events of the city: story, the author takes the reader to Ukraine, where “So, at the end of my life, after the famous the maternity hospital is almost all the relatives of earthquake completely changed the appearance of the hero: “The photographer of the town of Tashkent and in the center of it grew areas of Zolotonosha had a sublime passion for art...” [5, p. faceless new buildings, in one of which my uncle 1], so it initially becomes clear that the actions in and his third, final wife got an apartment...” [5, p.6]. the conditionally present Tashkent and in the past Alai Bazaar is one of the most famous bazaars in Ukraine will be interspersed with each other Tashkent, which served not only as a market, but through flashbacks. Thus, the image of Tashkent also as