Кукольный дом в повести Людмилы Петрушевской Маленькая девочка из «Метрополя»

Abstract

This article presents the analysis of a long short story by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Little Girl from Metropole (The Girl from the Metropol Hotel), which reflects the childhood and adolescence of the author, her family history. This is obviously a catastrophic experience of the highest order, and on account of this it is related to the basic fabular inventory of the House мyth, in the category of the Loss of the House. We draw parallels with works of Petrushevskaya, relations are revealed between documental and fiction text types. Fabricated in words, the borders between the real and the dreamed break down. Petrushevskaya’s stories are dark visions of surreal strangeness that transpire in worlds both real and unreal. With the fictional elements prevailing, the book is considered a piece of autobiographical fiction rather than a memoir.