Archetypal and modern in studying grandparents in Y. Kuznetsova's books about Varya and Olya

The article explores the archetypal nature and the author's content of images of grandparents using the example of modern books for children and adolescents written in the 2020s. The article is based on Yulia Kuznetsova's trilogy about Varya and Olya. The different psychological types of the older heroes of the trilogy are revealed, their manifestation and influence on the child heroes, as well as the ratio of the archetypes of older relatives with the specific realization of the character of each of the heroes in Kuznetsova's books. The psychological characteristics of this age group, as well as their individual nature, are revealed. In this work, the topics of communication in the family, friendly team, neighborhood relations, as well as problems related to overcoming old grievances and restoring friendly ties are updated. A rather original typology of the characters of grandparents, relevant to modern reality, is presented. The significance and timeliness of this article is due to the importance of the problems posed, as well as modern and practically unexplored research material, which are the works of Yu. Kuznetsova, only included in scientific circulation. To understand these aspects, the following research methods are used in the article: comparative, hermeneutical and comparative typological methods. With the help of a systematic approach, an analytical study of the ways of communication between older adults and grandparents with grandchildren and their friends is provided. The main result of this work was the study of different types of characters of grandparents, ways of their interaction with each other and with the younger generation and ways of their self-realization. The research of practically new and little-studied artistic material, which arouses genuine interest among both the addressee's peer and the adult reader, becomes relevant in this article. At the same time, the following tasks were solved: identification of archetypal, individual personal characteristics of images of grandparents; analysis of friendly relationships, friendships and enmity-competition in Y. Kuznetsova's stories about Varya and Olya; identification of the features of the development of the main storylines and the figurative system of the analyzed stories, as well as the genre originality of the works under study. The key aspects of the article were questions about the typology of the characters of older adults and the peculiarity of their influence on the generation of grandchildren.

Children’s literature, growing up of a child, grandmother archetypes, typology of characters, modern children’s story, children’s psychological story, developmental psychology, visual, personality types, mentor-educator