Наумлюк, М. В. Региональная литература Кольского Севера XX-XXI века в аспекте идентичности и мультикультурности. Страницы истории и современность / М. В. Наумлюк ; М-во образования и науки Рос. Федерации, Мурм. гос. гуманитар. ун-т. - Мурманск, 2013.

er represents complication of the modern young Norwegian’s identification in the global world. The hero creates his own personality anew. He comes back into the child hood, buys toys, remembers favorite things and employments. He creates oppo sitions: a good friend and a bad friend. He tries to unite his life with the Space and the Time. When he leaves Norway for New York, he gets to the center of a global civilization and understands that people are the same everywhere. As a normal Norwegian, he returns to the elemental and eternal values of life: family and love. Summing up his experience, the hero speaks: “Life is a travel, and maybe, I am a real balanced person”. “Doppler” (2004) is a novel with a philosophical tendency and the theme of the individual and national identification. Loe changes the hero, the ways of his identification and its results, but he keeps humorous and ironical intonation. The new hero - Doppler - belongs to a middle class, he is near forty years old, he has a family, he is a successful person and a so-called “average Norwegian”. Doppler gives up his family and profitable work and leaves them to live in the wood. The hero rejects all standard values of a consumer society and the civiliza tion blessings. He wishes to live in the consensus with himself and with the Na ture. The Nature gives him a sense of the life, and harmony. His predecessors become the writers, the saints, and the heroes of the world literature: Francis of Assizes, Swift and his Gulliver, Defoe and Robinson Crusoe, Russo and his ap peal “back in the Nature”, Kipling and his Mawgli, the Americans Henry Toro, London, Burrows and Tarzan and many others, however the writer is interested by the national Norwegian variant. Doppler doesn’t love modem people, occupied with earning money and maintenance of their status. He preaches at school by the words of Saint Francis: “It is necessary to teach youth to exchange things and services, instead of buying them. The future of the Earth depends on it. Contrary to popular belief, the per son doesn’t own the earth and the world. Flowers are our sisters, and horses, ea gles, without speaking about elks, are our brothers. And how the person can buy and sell something? Who possesses warmth of air and the wind rustle in foliage? Juice wandering in the trees bears memory of those who has lived before us. In stream murmur you can hear the voice of my father, and his father, and so on...” Creation of Totem, some kind of a monument to the father, which reflects a continuation of the family, becomes Doppler’s basic employment. The narrator of the story is Doppler himself, but the author appears with ironical intonation, characterizing the hero. Doppler, a man of middle age, dirty and shaggy, spends his time with the baby-elk in the wood. He has deserted a family, two children, the pregnant wife, but readers don’t feel indignation to him, thanks to his children’s naivety. He is very strange, but Norwegian. 117