YAKUT TALES IN THE CREATIVE HERITAGE OF D.K. SIVTSEV – SUORUN OMOLLOON: PUBLICATIONS’ HISTORY, CLASSIFICATION ISSUES

Abstract

The relevance of the work is due to a special interest in Yakut fairy tales as a unique source of oral folk art, to their connection with the epic – olonho. The article presents the work of D.K. Sivtsev-SuorunOmolloon on folklore, where the processing of texts and the systematization of materials on Yakut tales occupy a significant place in Yakut folklore studies. The value and significance of the fairy tale is reflected in the works of the folk writer, who published one of the popular genres of Yakut literature in his adaptations. Fairy tales can undergo further changes, the reasons for which are varied. The purpose of the work is to study the publications’ history, as well as the history of individual texts of Yakut fairy tales systematized by the national writer of Yakutia throughout his life. The research methodology is represented by a choice of historical-comparative, textological methods based on typological and textual analysis of folklore. The tasks of the work are: to present bibliographic information about editions, classification of fairy tales based on typological analysis of texts, to determine the significance of the collected and systematized D.K. Sivtsev-SuorunOmolloon materials on Yakut fairy tales. The results of the presented study are the classification of plots collected and processed by SuorunOmolloon, according to the A. Aarne’s system.