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Title of Article

SMUGGLED WITCHCRAFT FOR PIONEERS AND OCTOBRISTS


Issue
4
Date
2020

Section
LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE

Article type
scientific article
UDC
82
Pages
30-38
Keywords
Аркадий Гайдар, заговор, камень Алатырь, закрепка, Arkady Gaidar, charm, Alatyr stone, setting


Authors
Korovashko Aleksey Valerevich
Natsionalnyy issledovatelskiy Nizhegorodskiy gosudarstven-nyy universitet im. N.I. Lobachevskogo


Abstract
The interaction of folklore and literature is embodied, as a rule, in two aspects: explicit, implying the open nature of the appeal of an author to the of folklore material, and implicit, implying the hidden, not entirely obvious presence of folklore and ethnographic realities in a specific literary text (of course, there are cases when an oral-poetic work reveals signs of the influence of the products of individual author's creativity, and then it is necessary to talk about implicitness/explicitness in relation to this particular receptive strategy). For example, poetic recreation of East Slavic spells and enchantments can be carried out through a simple "retelling" of the original magical verbal text, adaptable to the rhyme and rhythm (examples of such "retellings" are widely represented, in particular, in the poetic folklorized stylizations of Konstantin Balmont). On the other hand, charm-spell poetry continues to live in the literary texts of the New and Modern times in a fragmentary, "shattered" form, manifesting itself at the level of individual speech formulas, ref- erences to characters and loci of the magical world, etc. The textbook fairy tale by Arkady Gaidar "Hot Stone", intended for children, is an example of an individual author's work, in which the enchanting subtext consists in the use of a standard charm locus (the Alatyr stone) and such a typical charm formula as setting, emphasizing the inviolability of the magical words. At the same time, the properties of the hot stone in Gaidar's fairy tale are such that they can be compared with the features characteristic of cult litomorphic objects recorded in numerous descriptions of East Slavic ritual practices. In addition, the central image of Gaidar's fairy tale is inextricably linked with the concept of time that is realized in it.

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