Хронотоп повести В. Г. Распутина «Прощание с Матёрой»: этнопоэтический аспект
The Chronotope of the Short Novel by V. Rasputin “Farewell to Matyora”: Its Ethnopoetic Aspect

Summary/Abstract: The analysis of the artistic originality of V. G. Rasputin’s novel “Farewell to Mаtyora” in the aspect of ethnopoetics reveals the ideas of “soilbound” tradition that became the basis of the aesthetics and axiology of his works. The spatial and temporal coordinates and loci of the story present the essence of the global conflict: eternity and modernity, culture and civilization, nature and man, the good and the evil. The chronotope of the story as an expression of the national picture of the world is presented in the conflict of the sacral and profane spaces in modern times. The sacral space and time are a synthesis of natural and human existence and has corresponding coordinate axes: the vertical one is the “Royal listven” and a church, the horizontal one is Angara and Matyora. The name of the island and the village has several semantic meanings: mother, mother-lend, mother-homeland, omnipotent, continent, spiritual continent, peasant Atlantean. Matyora as part of the national Cosmo-Logos is presented in a mythopoetic perspective as a living, intelligent, sensitive being, whose soul is the zoomorphic image of the “Owner of the island”.

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