Alpatov, S. V. “NEWS FROM HELL” IN KARGOPOLYE REGION: PROBLEM OF CHRONOLOGICAL STRATIFICATION OF LOCAL TRADITION // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2019. No 7 (184). P. 13–18. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2019.395


VIII Conference on the Traditional Culture of the Russian North "Ryabinin Readings-2019"

“NEWS FROM HELL” IN KARGOPOLYE REGION: PROBLEM OF CHRONOLOGICAL STRATIFICATION OF LOCAL TRADITION

Alpatov
S. V. 		Lomonosov Moscow State University
Keywords:
“News from Hell”
satire
local tradition
temporal strata		 Summary: “News from Hell” is a well known in various ethno-confessional traditions of Europe of the Modern Times pamphlet, which has been widely used in Russia since the end of the 18th century and regularly recorded in manuscript and oral form in Belarus, Romania, the Baltic States, Central Russia, the Volga region as well as in the Russian North, Ural and Altai. The solution to the problem of chronological stratification of oral versions and handwritten reductions of a popular pamphlet, directly depends on a consistent description of the evolution of the studied satire within the framework of local oral and manuscript traditions. In 1958 an expedition of Lomonosov Moscow State University recorded oral version of “News from Hell”, which fact determines the upper time limit ofthe satire’s life in the local tradition. The lower limit of the local tradition is marked by the handwritten satire of the late 18th century “A letter from Olonetsky former clerk Klim Nefediev, written from the other world to his son Artamon”, which used motifs and topoicorresponding with the “News from Hell” and represented the avant-text of the oral tradition.



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