From a Crow Feather to a Peacock’s: On the History of the Creation of the Mongolian Cycle of Legends and Fairy Tales by Aleksey Remizov
The article is devoted to the analysis of archival documents from the homemade folder Crow Feather (1947) preserved in the archive of A.M. Remizov at the State Museum of the History of Russian Literature named after V.I. Dahl (GLM). They record the milestones of the initial stage of the writer’s wor...
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| Materyal Türü: | Makale |
| Dil: | English |
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Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
2024-12-01
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| Seri Bilgileri: | Литературный факт |
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| Online Erişim: | https://litfact.ru/images/2024-34/2_Gracheva.pdf |
| Özet: | The article is devoted to the analysis of archival documents from the homemade folder Crow Feather (1947) preserved in the archive of A.M. Remizov at the State Museum of the History of Russian Literature named after V.I. Dahl (GLM). They record the milestones of the initial stage of the writer’s work on source texts from Legends and Fairy Tales of Central Asia, the book by traveler A.P. Bennigsen (1912). The materials show the movement of the creative process from extracts of individual words, expressions, and terms to the creation of a full-fledged artistic retelling. The original editions of Remizov’s legends and fairy tales are still closely related to their sources. The processing of the original materials consisted of the “translation” of texts from the standard literary language into spoken and of the gradual transformation of folklore records into individually authored works. The next stage was publishing part of the revisions in the mini-cycle Peacock Feather (1955). A comparison of the published editions with the original ones presented in the Crow’s Feather complex indicates Remizov’s further significant transformation of the source texts. In the tales “Chutkur” and “Tiger,” the writer destroyed the original genre structure, abandoning the “happy ending” inherent in the folklore tale. In the tale “Tiger,” the writer used the literary technique characteristic of the later period of his work to interpret the wonderful adventures of the character as an unfolded dream. Later, the mini-cycle Peacock Feather was included by Remizov in a collection that was never published during his lifetime, made up of texts of legends, fairy tales, and parables and called With Peacock Feather. The Appendix contains the original texts of Remizov’s legends and fairy tales with auto-illustrations. |
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| ISSN: | 2541-8297 2542-2421 |