I.P. Chekhov’s story "Van’ka": the other side of the world. Issue on folklore tradition
Abstract
Galieva Marianna Andreevna
The paper considers the chrestomathy work of Russian literature - the story by A.P. Chekhov «Van’ka». On the one hand the story preserves the definition of «Christmas». Attention was drawn to the festival motive itself for the events that occurred in the sacred ritual hour. On the other hand, the archetypal patterns that are organically included in the poetics of narrative, require a certain folklore comment. So, archetype window hides transitional ritual, switching the reader’s eye to the domestic space into existential, Otherworldly. Also the fact of writing the letter «to nowhere», the problem lies drawn by the Russian people, «limit», an unknown land that genetically traced back to folk aesthetics, poetics of the fairy tale. The question of Chekhov’s folklorism is debatable, but it is worth noting that the folk tradition in poetics can manifest itself both overtly and latently. The most important are the forms of «hidden» folklorism, since they are organically integrated into the artistic fabric of the work.
Key words: folklore, literature, Chekhov, “another kingdom”, archetype.
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