Artistic features of the organization of the narrative structure of Nikolay Zabolotsky-Chyskhaan’s short story “Maappa”

The article provides a comprehensive analysis of the narrative structure of Nikolay ZabolotskyChyskhan’s short story “Maappa” (1944) in terms of the interaction between folklore and mythology and the literary traditions of early 20th-century Yakut prose. The aim of the article is to study the narrative organization that determines the artistic originality of the work. Special attention is paid to the mechanisms of representation of the narrator’s image, which is endowed with special artistic functions in the literary text. In the course of the work, the following tasks are solved: determining the type of narrator, analyzing the composition of the story, ways to organize the chronotope (the chronotope of the “terrible world”), techniques for creating artistic imagery, as well as the study of the linguistic plan of the work. Special attention is paid to the image of the road and the motive of wandering, as well as the evolution of the traveler’s character, which form the liminal (borderline) space in the writer’s story. The linguistic analysis examines the use of folklore vocabulary (mythological nominations, stylistic figures and syntactic constructions), which form a special narrative rhythm and strengthen the connection with the oral tradition. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the systematization of narrative organization techniques that had not previously been the subject of a separate comprehensive analysis, including their linguistic implementation. The methodological base of the research includes a structural semiotic approach, a narratological analysis, a cultural historical method and concepts of studying mythopoetics. The practical significance of the research lies in the possibility of using its results in courses on the history of Yakut literature, text poetics, and narratology. 

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