TRADITIONS AND AUTHOR’S INDIVIDUALITY IN “THE TAIL OF THE DEAD PRINCESS AND THE SEVEN KNIGHTS” BY A.S. PUSHKIN
TRADITIONS AND AUTHOR’S INDIVIDUALITY IN “THE TAIL OF THE DEAD PRINCESS AND THE SEVEN KNIGHTS” BY A.S. PUSHKIN

Author(s): Sergei V. Anatolyevich
Subject(s): Russian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Author’s individuality; national culture; conception of love and marriage;
Summary/Abstract: The «sleeping beauty» plot is rendered by Charles Perrault as a courtly one. Turning to this fairy plot, the Brothers Grimm find artistic «balance» between the magic and human or everyday motivations of certain actions. V.A. Zhukovsky provides only a cursory rendering of the imagery, but tries to picture his characters as individuals in the context of this fairy-tale plot; at the same time, the poet focuses on artistic investigation of the magic. Against this background, A.S. Pushkin performs remarkable synthesis. He artistically combines folkloric materials with Christian myth and literary works, thus creating conception of love and marriage within the spirit of the national culture.

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