Stories of initiation into adulthood

[Laura Kline]

What about Pelevin's "Ontology of Childhood"? It is an odd take on the
question, but he certainly has a lot to say about it.

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[mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Alla Lamp
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:07 PM
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: [SEELANGS] Stories of initiation into adulthood

Dear Seelangers,

I am doing research dealing with Russian stories of initiation into 
adulthood. I interpret initiation as experiences which lead to a dramatic 
change in a child's (teenager's) worldview. This change is perceived as 
sudden either by the hero himself or by people around him. So far, I 've 
looked only at stories describing female experiences:
1)	Karolina Pavlova "The Double Life";
2)          Dostoevsky "Netochka Nezvanova";
3)	Leo Tolstoy "Family Happiness";
4)	Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia "The Boarding-School Girl";
5)	Vsevolod Krestovsky "The Little Demon";
6)	Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Karamazov Brothers" - Liza Khokhlakova's 
plot-line;
7)	Boris Pasternak "The Childhood of Luvers";
8)	Nina Berberova "Ladies from St. Petersburg";
9)	Marina Tsvetaeva "The Devil"
10)	Vera Panova "Valia"
I would greatly appreciate if you could suggest any other Russian literary 
texts that are worth looking at in regard to female or male initiation into 
adulthood.

Alla Lamp,
graduate student
al3p at virginia.edu

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