The Child Character and the Positive Hero in the Soviet Prose of the Second World War
The Child Character and the Positive Hero in the Soviet Prose of the Second World War

Summary/Abstract: This work points out the ideological limits and intrusions imposed by social realism in the war prose of Soviet literature. The two texts that form the object of analysis, V. Kataev’s Son of the Regiment and V. Bogomolov’s Ivan, are from different decades and illustrate the loosening of the ideological restrictions in the literary field, also mirrored in the different manner of constructing literary characters, faithful, to a greater or a lesser degree, to the established ideal of the Soviet character in Chernyshevsky’s tradition of the “positive hero”.

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