Αναπαραστάσεις της Σοβιετικής Ένωσης και της Ρωσίας στο έργο της Άλκης Ζέη για παιδιά

Abstract

Abstract

The author of children's literature Alki Zei took part in crucial events of her time and experienced pivotal moments in Greek and world history. Living with her family as political refugees in the former Soviet Union, Zei drew on material to write two of her most famous novels for children and teenagers: Uncle Plato (1975) and Close to the Rails (1977).  In the novel Uncle Plato, young readers learn about life in a foreign country at that time and are provided with a lot of information about its rich cultural tradition through the everyday life of a family of Greek political refugees. In the teenage novel Close to the Rails, ten-year-old Sashenka grows up realising many things about the unjust world she lives in during the pre-revolutionary era in tsarist Russia and the need to fight to change the world.

Keywords: Alki Zei, Soviet Union, Russia, children’s book, representations