Petrov, A. M. FOLKLORE AND LITERARY CONNECTIONS IN THE WORKS OF VIKTOR PUL’KIN (BASED ON THE NOVEL “THE AZURE JACKET”) // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2020. Vol. 42. No 5. P. 100–107. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2020.505


«The world of folklore images»: research conference in memory of N. A. Krinichnaya

FOLKLORE AND LITERARY CONNECTIONS IN THE WORKS OF VIKTOR PUL’KIN (BASED ON THE NOVEL “THE AZURE JACKET”)

Petrov
A. M. 		Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences
Keywords:
Victor Pulkin
folklore and literary connections
legends
literature
folklore
ethnography
Peter I		 Summary: The article based on the material of literary works by Viktor Pulkin discusses the problem of folklore and literary relations. The novel “The Azure Jacket” and its folklore sources (legends about Peter the 1st and Vytegra dwellers) are analyzed. The purposes of the article are to trace the directions and methods of literary processing of folklore traditions; to describe cases of rearrangement of semantic accents in the early and later versions of the story. The conclusions of the study are as follows: the source of the “Azure Jacket” was a cycle of legends about the stolen royal clothing, about Peter the 1st and the Obryadins, more specifically – the text recorded by N. A. Krinichnaya and V. I. Pul’kin in Vytegra in 1971. In the literary retelling, the main features of the folklore text are preserved: its composition, sequence of motives, characters, linguistic framework, and style. The title “The Azure Jacket” does not exist in the folklore tradition, it is the fruit of the writer’s imagination. In literary retelling, topographic accents are different in comparison with the folklore source. With the help of more active use of verse-like fragments, elements of colloquial, dialect vocabulary, interjections, the humorous cultural context of the plot was reinforced in literary texts. The later version contains more details; it is more complicated in terms of composition; it is decorated with ornamental elements. For example, under the influence of legends about historical persons, a description of Peter’s look appears; in the literary story, an indication of the profession of the narrator (the carpenter) is introduced. The source of this detail is the personality of the writer himself. In the later version, the opposition of the corporeal and spiritual, perishable and eternal is sharpened; the theme of historical memory is enhanced.



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