FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGICAL IMAGES IN V.G. BAKHMUTOV’S PROSE

Abstract

The article studies folklore and mythological images in stories of the Russian-language writer of Altai V.G. Bakhmutov. The paper reveals the key points of the writer’s biography and creative life, presents a look at his work in the assessment of contemporaries – L. Chashchina and D. Kainchin. The central place in the article is taken by the consideration of folklore and mythological images in V.G. Bakhmutov’s collections “Signs of time”, “Autumn ice”, “Semigorki”. Analysis of images of rainbows, mountains, rivers, trees, and others allowed us to conclude that the writer’s picture of the world was filled with Slavic pagan and Orthodox images. Russian Literature has modified the semantics of traditional River and Mountain mythologies, which allowed us to conclude that the main images in the Russian literature of Altai are gradually moving away from the traditional functioning.