What they write about in adventure literature. What does "adventure literature" mean? What makes a book and its characters immortal?

So, what is adventure literature? Does Jack London's legacy, for example, apply to her? (by the way, my favorite writer). A similar question is raised by “Don Quixote”, “Robinson Crusoe”, “Gulliver’s Travels”. Not only individual works, but entire genres argue for their right to be called adventure literature.

“According to modern concepts, adventure literature is a combination of several prose genres that give priority to action over character, chance over the everyday course of life, and dynamics over descriptiveness.”

Adventure literature usually includes a detective story, a travel novel, science fiction, and an adventure (actually an adventure) novel. Adventure literature differs from “serious” literature in the type of conflict, which is especially “conflicting” here. The hero’s merits are often exaggerated, as well as the significance and “dimensions” of his actions (feats).

Very often, adventure prose is populated by simpletons, whose naive conclusions set off the insight of intellectuals (Porthos or Dr. Watson as an advantageous foil for D’Artagnan and Sherlock Holmes).

Yes, adventure is a game, but it is also a drama, since its hero is invariably tested - moreover, by genuine danger, and not by a trained situation. The reader's response is a great emotional and intellectual tension. After all, the battles of an adventure game are fought on the very edge of the abyss. The hero usually overcomes all obstacles and everything, as a rule, ends with a happy ending, but in principle happy ending he is not guaranteed adventures.

The works of the first adventure wave are identified with serious literature: “Robinson Crusoe”, “Gulliver’s Adventures”, novels by Walter Scott and Fielding. Dumas, Poe, Jules Verne, Stevenson, Conan Doyle - these are the authors of the second “wave”, under whose pen adventure literature takes on a modern look.

In fact, the line between adventure and “serious” literature is very arbitrary. Some works of the year before last, the past, and of this century They seem to have double citizenship, belonging to both at the same time. Just remember “Robinson Crusoe” or V. Bogomolov’s novel “The Moment of Truth”.

Among the most important representatives of Soviet and Russian adventure literature are A. Tolstoy and A. Green, V. Kataev and V. Kaverin, A. Belyaev and I. Efremov, br. Strugatsky, A. Rybakov, Y. Semenov and A. Adamov. Their best adventure works are included in the golden fund of youth reading and are regularly published under the brand of adventure publications.

Foreign adventure literature of the 20th century alone can boast of such notable names as Sabatini with his novels about Captain Blood, science fiction writers Bradbury, Asimov, Sheckley, detective writers John Dixon Car, Christie, Simeon, etc.

The adventure seems frivolous, carefree. But behind this mask there is an urgent concern: (this may seem too pretentious to some) to establish a high moral ideal in the reader’s mind. Adventure literature, no matter how paradoxical such a statement may sound, is edifying, teaching, educating.

Often young authors ask: “Where is this “educating” moment in my story (story, novel), if I don’t put much meaning into my opus, but simply describe adventures invented or heard somewhere? The meaning, and therefore the “educating moment,” is always present in such works. The author often does not realize it himself. Remember how, after reading a book or watching a movie, you suddenly want to become at least a little like the main character or characters - to become as strong, brave, noble...

The best samples Russian science fiction, in particular, was given by Pushkin and Gogol, Saltykov-Shchedrin and Dostoevsky, Alexei Tolstoy and Bulgakov…. Remember the story by A. S. Pushkin “The Secluded House on Vasilievsky”, and “ Queen of Spades“Isn’t this fantastic? Remember Lermontov’s “Stoss”, A. K. Tolstoy’s story “Amen” and A. N. Tolstoy’s “Count Cagliostro”, I. S. Turgenev’s “Ghosts”, A. P. Chekhov’s “The Black Monk”, Bryusov, Kuprin, Green , Platonova, Zozulya... The list goes on and on...

Arkady Strugatsky said: “FICTION IS THE FOREMOTHER OF ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE”

I completely agree with our great writer and, without fear of any accusations of being too categorical, I follow him in asserting that world fantasy is the foremother and contemporary of all types of literature. Probably, for many, what has been said will be a kind of revelation. Previously (and, probably, still) science fiction was considered, and perhaps still is, considered a frivolous genre. A kind of “poor relative” on the fringes of literature, light reading for people who don’t really like to strain their brains.

I want to honestly say: I prefer science fiction to all types of fiction. Perhaps someone considers the SF genre boring, replete with technical details, “bogged down” in scientific terms, without the action beloved by young people, and not only young people. And some may even consider it a dying genre... Believe me, you are wrong. And rumors of death are greatly exaggerated.

SF did not emerge out of nowhere; its elements can be found in Greek mythology(myth of Daedalus and Icarus). But it was Jules Verne who was the first to write what would later be called “science fiction.” And his younger contemporary Wells showed that science fiction can be not only educational and entertaining reading, but also serious, “great” literature. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who left us an extensive literary legacy, including several science fiction works, the most famous of which, “The Lost World,” is usually considered a “pioneer.”

A phrase from a critical review: “One thing I didn’t like. The story was written according to the classical canons of SF"(!).

What can I say here? Sadly!

More than once I have heard (and not only heard, but also read) that science fiction is literature, or more precisely, subliterature, which a swindler writes for the weak-minded on the topic “fly my rocket.”

“I don’t believe it! Why does he scare me? - someone screams, having difficulty defeating the “Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin”. And at this moment, above his head, two hundred kilometers away, dead and vigilant, glistening unbearably in the sun, a fighter satellite armed with a deadly laser and stuffed with nuclear explosives is gliding. “I don’t believe it! I don’t want to live in this future!” - he breaks down, having overcome several chapters of “The Andromeda Nebula”. “I don’t know...” he begins, flipping through “Shagreen Skin” diagonally, but he immediately realizes: he was taught at school that Balzac was a great writer.

“Fiction is literature for children and youth, designed to tell in a fascinating way about the prospects for the development of science and technology, and most importantly, to play an educational and patriotic role.” Modern SF is distinguished by a large “degree of freedom.” Authors working in this genre are willing to experiment, combine, and look for new forms. Sometimes it turns out better, sometimes worse, sometimes the authors themselves cannot decide on the genre of their creations. It is likely that as a result, a completely new type of science fiction will appear (or has already appeared?), for which a name has yet to be chosen, and for which the future lies.

This lesson is taught in the 5th grade (educational system "School-2100", textbook by R.N. Buneev and E.V. Buneeva), designed for two hours.

Lesson objectives:

repeat, consolidate, systematize the material covered in literature lessons;
develop in students the ability to generalize and analyze acquired knowledge, draw conclusions;
contribute to the formation of a developed imagination in students;
to promote the manifestation and development of individual creative abilities of schoolchildren.

Lesson type: repeating and generalizing.

Lesson format: lesson with a variety of activities

Lesson equipment: multimedia projector, ICT, portraits of writers, screen, individual cards for students

Epigraph for the lesson(write on the board)

Adventure: Books about adventure have become the most beloved books for children who read. Why exactly like this?

Lesson progress

Let's write down the topic of today's lesson in our notebook: "Adventure literature." Adventure: What does this word mean for you? Let's play association.

In your notebooks, write the word ADVENTURE .

What associations does this word evoke for you?

Why do we love adventure books so much?

Suggested answers.

Because he is drawn to distant travels
Because they have a lot of courage
Because we find out who the heroes of adventure books are and what exciting events are described in them.

Teacher.

Authors such as D. Defoe, M. Twain, R. L. Stevenson were able to describe unusual adventures so vividly and vividly that the reader will forever remember Huck Finn, with dead cat in the hands, or Robinson's travels, his ability to survive on a desert island, or the one-legged pirate John Silver, nicknamed Ham, from Treasure Island. Books about adventures vary in content, but the mood that arises when reading them is usually bright and joyful. For example, the adventures of the heroes in the Emerald City or Carlson's flights are cheerful and funny stories, which, nevertheless, with particular wisdom emphasize those good feelings on which true friendship and respect are built.

Dialogue teacher - students:

D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis were invented by the French writer ____ (A. Dumas, father).

Slide. A. Dumas - father of "The Three Musketeers"

In 1844, the first book of the trilogy about the musketeers ____________ (“The Three Musketeers”) was published.

What attracts us to his work?

Suggested answers.

Dumas's heroes attract with their chivalric nobility, courage, and loyalty in friendship and love.

When do the events described in the novel take place?

Suggested answer.

The main characters of the work - who are they?

Suggested answers.

D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis - they are the king's musketeers.

The writer talks not so much about the historical events of the 17th century, but about the morals of that time. So the entire narrative is based on the fates and exploits of the “men of honor” Athos, Porthos and Aramis and D’Artagnan who joined them.

In the name of what do the musketeers perform their feats?

Suggested answer.

In the name of France

Teacher .

The musketeers perform their feats in the name of France, they are patriots (write in a notebook: a patriot is one who loves his homeland, is devoted to his people), for them duty comes before personal interests. They are faithful to ideals and intolerant of meanness; this determines their actions in every extreme situation.

What does friendship mean to musketeers?

Suggested answers.

Loyalty,

Loyalty to each other "one for all and all for one"

It is also a symbol of the unification of intelligence, ingenuity and nobility, which should serve justice.

Slide: “Sailing ship” (to attract attention)

But the writer Jules Verne was one of the first science fiction writers. He predicted many scientific discoveries, flew on hot air balloon, wrote the famous "Captain Nemo", commander of the Nautilus.

His most fascinating work was the novel “The Children of Captain Grant,” where passions and adventures boil, and brave people affirm a spirit of friendship that is truly invincible.

Already from the first pages of the novel “The Children of Captain Grant” J. Verne attracts the reader to analytical thinking. How does he do it?

Student answers

How do the main characters of the novel “The Children of Captain Grant” appear before us?

Suggested answers.

Brave
Brave
Purposeful
Rushing to help each other
Honest
Curious

Slide. Edgar Poe "The Gold Bug"

E. Poe in his story “The Gold Bug” talks about a detective search for a treasure.

Why is the story called "The Golden Bug"?

Suggested answers.

Since it is with the discovery of a gold beetle that the search for treasure begins.

Edgar Allan Poe is interested in the process of solving a riddle, the process of cognition, and he involves the reader in this process.

How is the secret revealed?

Student answers:

Teacher.

Can this work be classified as an adventure story?

Suggested answers.

"The Golden Bug" is a real adventure story. All the features of the genre are present:

dynamics developments,
secret,
cipher,
treasure hunt,
treasure

Slide. R.L.Stevenson

“I stood up, and was immediately hit by a wave from head to toe. But now this did not frighten me. I sat down and, gathering all my strength, carefully began to row. I set off after the Hispaniola, which was not controlled by anyone. Once the waves threw me like that me that my heart fluttered like a bird. I stopped and began to bail out the water...”

What work are these lines from?

Suggested answers.

"Treasure Island"

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in the main city of Scotland - Edinburgh. He was the only child in the family. Robert Lewis Stevenson was a lawyer by training, suffered all his life incurable disease bronchi and was often bedridden. His father, Thomas Stevenson, a naval engineer, loved stories about travel, distant countries and pirates. Perhaps his professional pursuits - building lighthouses - put him in this mood. Sitting at the bedside of his sick son, the father talked about brave sea robbers, desperate voyages, buried treasures.

Slide. R.L. Stevenson "Treasure Island"

This happened in the summer of 1881. Entertaining his stepson (entry in a notebook: a stepson is the step-son of one of the spouses, who is related to the other), who came home for the holidays, Stevenson drew a map of the island and colored it with paints. The card turned out just wonderful! Spyglass Hill, Skeleton Island were marked on it, and bays and bays were drawn. Stevenson was generally very fond of maps, “for their content and for the fact that they are not boring to read.” And looking at the painted island, he suddenly saw: a blue sky, a ship with white sails, dark green forests and treasures!

“This must be a book for boys,” the writer announced to his family. After this, old Mr. Thomas Stevenson, the writer's father, spent the whole day making an inventory of the items that were kept in Billy Bones' chest. And Robert Lewis did not change anything in this inventory. The old naval engineer also suggested a barrel of apples. That same barrel, which later came in very handy - after all, it was while sitting in it that Jim Hawkins learned about the insidious plans of the pirates.

The book was published in 1883 and since then it has been read by more than one generation of readers.

Slide. R.L. Stevenson "Treasure Island". Jim Hawkins.

But Jim lived in a village somewhere in the middle of nowhere, and was something of an errand boy in the tavern. I was even a little cowardly at first. The simplest, ordinary boy. And suddenly, such dizzying adventures fall to his lot, albeit scary and dangerous, replacing each other at a frantic pace. Blind Pew's stick clatters terribly on the icy road... Jim sits in a barrel of apples and hears scary name Captain Flint... The hoarse cry of a parrot "Piastres, piastres, piastres!"... The pirates recognize the sun-scorched skeleton: "Eh, it's Allardyce, strike me with thunder!"

And before our eyes, Jim is changing.

What does he become?

Suggested answers.

He becomes dexterous, brave and resourceful, and even - even for an hour - the captain of Hispaniola.

Slide. R.L. Stevenson "Treasure Island". Other heroes of the story.

Other heroes of the book will forever remain in the memory of readers.

Which characters of the story do you remember? Briefly describe them. (Independent work of students in workbooks).

Suggested answers.

A kind, but narrow-minded and talkative squire; Captain Smollett with an iron sense of duty; Dr. Livesey, intelligent and courageous, providing medical assistance even to his mortal enemies; and, of course, the one-legged pirate John Silver! It is he, along with Jim, who are the main characters of the book. “The ship's cook” - that's what Stevenson thought it should have been called at first.

Slide. A.N. Rybakov.

RYBAKOV Anatoly Naumovich (1911 - 1998), Russian writer. Published in 1948, the story "Dirk" was written by a 37-year-old demobilized officer who took part in the Great Patriotic War. This was the first book by A. Rybakov, whose life experience included the war, the years of wandering around Russia that preceded it, and his studies at the Institute of Transport Engineers (trained as a writer-engineer-automotive engineer).

The book follows all the rules of the adventure genre.

Guys, please prove that this story is built according to all the rules of the adventure genre.

Suggested answers.

In the center of the plot is a mystery that the book’s hero, Misha Polyakov, and his faithful friends Genka and Slavka must solve and unravel. This riddle is embodied in an ancient dagger that, under strange circumstances, ended up with Commissar Polevoy during the sinking of the battleship Empress Maria. Then the commissioner presented the cutlass to Misha. Inside the handle of the dagger is a code, the key to which is in the scabbard of this mysterious weapon, and the scabbard was taken by a white officer, the alleged culprit of the death of the battleship, the leader of the Nikitsky gang.

And, as it should be in adventure book, the paths of the owner of the dagger and the owner of the sheath miraculously cross: surveillance, vague guesses - one mysterious event entails another.

Who are the main characters of the story?

Suggested answers.

decisive Misha Polyakov,
delicate and questioning everything, Slava,
hot and talkative Genka;
the fact that three friends learned about the existence of the secret of the dirk was an accident.
A. Rybakov's heroes are courageous

And masculinity is not only courage, it is also a sense of responsibility for what is happening, the ability to find the correct solution to the moral problems that fill the life of every person, big and small.

and at the same time, Misha, Genka and Slava are not a bunch of virtues, but ordinary boys - they are not averse to fooling around, dodging an unpleasant and boring task. But pay attention to how, risking his life, Misha throws himself at the feet of a bandit to save Commissar Polevoy, or how patiently and delicately he braves the homeless child Korovin from a homeless life. These are truly courageous actions.

Conclusion.

Teacher.

Today we turned to the genre of adventure work (novel, story, short story). We remembered such writers as A. Dumas the Father, Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov, who wrote such interesting works, were themselves interesting people and lived a colorful life.

What are the main features of works of adventure literature?

Student answers: Summary of what has been said.

Conclusion (writing in a notebook)

The main features of works of adventure literature, their distinctive features:

At the core is an adventure, a dynamic event in which the heroes of the work become participants by chance. In an adventure work, one adventure is replaced by another, which makes the work action-packed.

Chance also plays a big role in solving mysteries, codes, etc.

Characteristic descriptions of historical events, geographical discoveries (both as a background for the development of action), shipwrecks, fights, clashes with pirates and other robbers, floods, earthquakes, etc., that is, what we call extreme situations.

Solving the code, searching for treasure, any other situations full of mystery.

Often the action takes place in sea or on island.

Heroes - usually brave, courageous, kind, noble People. They are distinguished by loyalty and devotion, ready to come to the aid of those in trouble.

What does adventure literature teach us?

Student answers:

Slide. "Adventure literature teaches us"

(Write in notebook)

Adventure literature teaches us

make friends and love,
be persistent and brave,
not to be afraid of difficulties;
instills a love of travel,
fosters a thirst for knowledge and science.

Homework. Workbook for the educational complex "educational system "School-2100"" pp. 11-12.

I can't help but say a few words about science fiction. Actually, science fiction is not a genre, but a concept that includes such genres as SF, fantasy - its sister, mysticism and even fairy tales, myths, sagas...
The best examples of Russian science fiction, in particular, were given by Pushkin and Gogol, Saltykov-Shchedrin and Dostoevsky, Alexei Tolstoy and Bulgakov... Remember A. S. Pushkin’s story “A Secluded House on Vasilyevsky”, and “The Queen of Spades” - isn’t that science fiction? Remember Lermontov’s “Stoss”, A. K. Tolstoy’s story “Amen” and A. N. Tolstoy’s “Count Cagliostro”, I. S. Turgenev’s “Ghosts”, A. P. Chekhov’s “The Black Monk”, Bryusov, Kuprin, Green , Platonova, Zozulya... The list goes on and on...
Arkady Strugatsky said: “FICTION IS THE FOREMOTHER OF ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE”
I completely agree with our great writer and, without fear of any accusations of being too categorical, I follow him in asserting that world fantasy is the foremother and contemporary of all types of literature. Probably, for many, what has been said will be a kind of revelation. Previously (and, probably, still) science fiction was considered, and perhaps still is, considered a frivolous genre. A kind of “poor relative” on the fringes of literature, light reading for people who don’t really like to strain their brains.
I want to honestly say: I prefer science fiction to all types of fiction. Perhaps someone considers the SF genre boring, replete with technical details, “bogged down” in scientific terms, without the action beloved by young people, and not only young people. And some may even consider it a dying genre... Believe me, you are wrong. And rumors of death are greatly exaggerated.
SF did not emerge out of nowhere; its elements can be found in Greek mythology (the myth of Daedalus and Icarus). But it was Jules Verne who was the first to write what would later be called “science fiction.” And his younger contemporary Wells showed that science fiction can be not only educational and entertaining reading, but also serious, “great” literature. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who left us an extensive literary legacy, including several science fiction works, the most famous of which, “The Lost World,” is usually considered a “pioneer.”
A phrase from a critical review: “One thing I didn’t like. The story was written according to the classical canons of SF"(!).
What can I say here? Sadly!
More than once I have heard (and not only heard, but also read) that science fiction is literature, or more precisely, subliterature, which a swindler writes for the weak-minded on the topic “fly my rocket.”
“I don’t believe it! Why does he scare me? - someone yells, having difficulty defeating the “Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin”. And at this moment, above his head, two hundred kilometers away, dead and vigilant, glistening unbearably in the sun, a fighter satellite armed with a deadly laser and stuffed with nuclear explosives is gliding. “I don’t believe it! I don’t want to live in this future!” - he breaks down, having overcome several chapters of “The Andromeda Nebula”. “I don’t believe...” he begins, flipping through “Shagreen Skin” diagonally, but he immediately realizes: he was taught at school that Balzac was a great writer.
“Fiction is literature for children and youth, designed to tell in a fascinating way about the prospects for the development of science and technology, and most importantly, to play an educational and patriotic role.” Modern SF is distinguished by a large “degree of freedom”. Authors working in this genre are willing to experiment, combine, and look for new forms. Sometimes it turns out better, sometimes worse, sometimes the authors themselves cannot decide on the genre of their creations. It is likely that as a result, a completely new type of science fiction will appear (or has already appeared?), for which a name has yet to be chosen, and for which the future lies.

Adventure literature

One of the types fiction, prose, the main content of which is a fascinating, exciting story about real or fictitious events. The features of adventure literature are a dynamic plot, the severity of situations, intense emotions, motives of mystery, kidnapping, persecution, crime, travel, etc. Within adventure literature, several stable genres can be distinguished, differing in two ways: in what setting the action takes place and what is the main plot content. Thus, adventure literature includes detectives, the main content of which is the investigation of a crime. The master detectives were E. By, A.K. Doyle, A. Christie etc. Often the author creates detective novels and stories with one end-to-end character - a professional or amateur detective (G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown, Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Christie's Hercule Poirot, etc.). The reader's interest is maintained by trying to find the criminal, whose name is usually learned at the very end. Fantastic adventure literature tells about fictional creatures, their adventures or about fictional events happening to people. Action fantastic works can be transported to other planets, to the past or future of the Earth; there are aliens operating in them, fairy creatures etc. Famous authors fiction - G. Wells, R. Bradbury, WITH. Lem, TO. Bulychev, A. and B. Strugatsky. The fascination of fantastic adventure literature is based on the depiction of unusual creatures and mechanisms, as well as extraordinary events that happen to them. Historical adventure literature tells about some era remote from the author and reader, trying to restore as accurately as possible the details of life and surroundings. V. worked in this genre. Scott, A. Dumas the Father, IN. Hugo. IN historical novels Usually there are fictional main characters, and real ones historical figures are episodic characters (for example, the main characters of the novel “The Three Musketeers” - Athos, Porthos, Aramis and d'Artagnan - are fictional by the author, but Cardinal Richelieu, the king and queen of France are real). Also, the entertainment value of adventure literature can be associated with exoticism. various peoples and tribes, nature different countries- these are the novels of F. Cooper, J. London, R.L. Stevenson, AND. Verna, T.M. Reed, J. Conrad, G. R. Haggard. The author can depict life side by side with such tribes (like T. M. Reed, who describes life in the USA and introduces Indians into his works). The leading motive in such works may be the motive of travel, as, for example, in G. R. Haggard.

Along with the identified types of adventure literature, there are works that do not belong to any of these groups, but nevertheless belong to adventure literature due to their entertaining nature and exciting plot (for example, the stories of A.P. Gaidar about the adventures of teenagers or novels by M. Twain about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn).
In Russian literature, A.S. worked in the genre of adventure literature. Green (« Scarlet Sails"), V. A. Kaverin(“Two Captains”), A.N. Tolstoy(“Aelita”, “Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin”), A.P. Gaidar (“Timur and his team”, “R.V.S.”, “Chuk and Gek”), A.R. Belyaev(“The Head of Professor Dowell”), V.P. Kataev(“The Lonely Sail Whitens”), the Weiner brothers (“Era of Mercy”), etc.
The works of many authors of adventure literature have become classics children's literature.

Literature and language. Modern illustrated encyclopedia. - M.: Rosman. Edited by prof. Gorkina A.P. 2006 .

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adventure literature

fiction, subordinated to the task of an entertaining narration of events; it is characterized by the rapid development of action, changeability and acuteness of plot (plot) situations, intensity of experiences, motives for kidnapping and persecution, secrets and riddles (novels by A. Dumas the Father, “Treasure Island” by R. Stevenson). Intertwined with detective literature, science fiction and travel (as a literary genre).

Adventure literature

fiction, where the main task of the narrative is an entertaining report about real or fictitious incidents, and the analytical, didactic and descriptive elements are absent or are obviously of secondary importance. P.l. relies on the experience of diverse literary and artistic narrative genres, for which the adventurous and entertaining setting was essential, but did not determine the plot whole, ≈ the Greek novel of the Hellenistic era (“Ethiopica” by Heliodorus, 3rd century AD), knightly epic 12≈16 centuries, the Baroque novel (“Astraea” d’Urfe, etc.), the picaresque novel of adventures, travel literature of the 17–18 centuries and the Gothic novel of pre-romanticism with its vicissitudes, secrets and horrors. A significant role in the development of P l. Documentary prose and journalism also played a role.

A more specific application of the concept “P.” l." (“adventure genre”) to the literature about adventures that developed in the 19th century. in line with romanticism and neo-romanticism (under the influence of a number of their tendencies: repulsion from the prose of bourgeois everyday life; searches for the lofty and heroic; striving for the new, original; plot entertaining). One of the first samples of P. l. “sea novels” by F. Cooper and F. Marriet, historical adventure novels by A. Dumas, the father, and social adventure novels by E. Xu appeared. The most marked by romantic pathos famous works P.l. 19th ≈ early 20th centuries: T. M. Reed, R. L. Stevenson, R. Haggard, J. Conrad (Great Britain); G. Ferri, G. Emara, J. Vernat, L. Jacolliot, L. Boussenard, P. Benoit (France); J. London (USA). For P. l. characterized by the rapid development of action, changeability and acuteness of plot situations, exaggerated experiences, motives for kidnapping and persecution, secrets and riddles. The action takes place in special conditions; characters are sharply divided into villains and heroes. Modern P. l. often merges with science fiction, which extremely expands the plot possibilities of the narrative.

About the popularity of P. l. in the USSR, evidenced by numerous serial publications, collections, magazines (for example: “Library of Adventures and Science Fiction”, since 1943, publishing house “Children’s Literature”; “Adventures” - publishing house “Young Guard”; magazine “Around the World”, with the appendix “Seeker” "≈ since 1961; "Feat" ≈ supplement to the magazine "Rural Youth", etc.).

In the genre of P. l. speakers were A. Green, V. Kaverin, A. Tolstoy, A. Gaidar, A. Belyaev, V. Kataev, G. Adamov, Yu. Semenov. Soviet P. l. in general, it is distinguished by heroic-patriotic, life-affirming, revolutionary pathos.

Lit.: Rausse N., Der deutsche Abenteuerroman, , 1912; Doutrepout G., Les types populaires de la littérature française, pt. 1≈2, Brux., 1926≈27; Ayrenschmabz A., Zum Begrift des Abenteuerromans, Tübingen, 1962; Folsons J. K., The American western novel, New Haven, 1966.

V. S. Muravyov.

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Adventure literature

Adventure novel(Also adventure novel, from) is a genre of novel that was formed in the middle of the 19th century on the wave of romanticism and neo-romanticism with their characteristic desire to escape from bourgeois everyday life into the world of exoticism and heroism. In a broader sense, we can talk about the existence of a special adventure genre, or adventure literature, which is distinguished by a sharp division of characters into heroes and villains, “the rapid development of action, the changeability and severity of plot situations, exaggerated experiences, motives for kidnapping and persecution, secrets and riddles.” The task of adventure literature is not so much to teach, analyze or describe reality, but to entertain the reader.