FOLKLORE MOTIFS IN THE LYRICAL PROSE OF EFFENDI KAPIEV

Abstract

In the article, the authors consider the use of folklore motifs in the lyrical prose of Effendi Kapiev. The research is based on achievements in the field of literary studies and folklore studies. The main emphasis in the study is placed on the priority of the ideological principle in the use of folklore motifs as the main means of forming the problematic of a work of art, its ideological purpose. The reflection of a whole system of folklore motifs in the lyrics of E. Kapiev allows to talk about the originality of the author’s artistic manner, its uniqueness. The researchers of the article emphasize that folklore origin, often in the same writer, prevails at the initial stage of his work, and then it seems to go deep into the works and is not too conspicuous. Sometimes, on the contrary, at some stage of the development of his work, the writer uses folklore motifs quite widely and acquires a keen interest in his native folklore. Effendi Kapiev considered folklore an artistic tradition that should be diligently studied and cherished. In the oral poetry of the Highlanders, Kapiev saw the history, the character of the people, the expression of the best national traditions. For a long time he nurtured the artistic idea of creating a lively, colorful image of a contemporary. E. Kapiev does not go an easy, beaten path in addressing folklore. He takes folk genres of folklore, melts the gold ore of folk poetry and creates his own sounding word, his original artistic system. In his work Kapiev is inextricably linked with his native soil and relies on the experience of national literature Russian literature and mountain poetry, E. Kapiev has set himself the task of helping his people to realize themselves, their past and their present, to make their people known and close to the Russian reader and other peoples.