National world in the child’s perception (in S.Y. Agnon’s "A dwelling place of my people" and I.S. Shmelyov’s "The summer of the Lord")
This article considers some features of child’s perception of national world in the light of Christian and Jewish cultures. Its main purpose is to compare some works (novels and short stories) by I.S. Shmelyov and S.Y. Agnon, two authors, whose names have never been mentioned together, in the same context, and to describe general features of the National world in their texts. The structure of article is based on the comparative method: after the annihilation of patriarchal structure with its religious values both authors, far away from their birthplaces, in emigration, they revive the world of their childhood, the world before wars and catastrophes, world of religious rituals and values, which is full of harmony. At the same time, we can mention some differences in the description of this “Holy Land” (education of the child-narrator, his family, friends, milieu, etc.), flowing from the peculiarities of Russian and Jewish cultures. Consequently, the keyword parameters of the National worlds in the prose of I.S. Smelyov and S.Y. Agnon were defined.