MYTHOPOETIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD IN THE WORKS OF CH. AITMATOV

Abstract

The article examines mythological images and motifs in the works of Ch. Aitmatov. It is argued that the mythopoetic picture of the world is an integral system that has certain characteristics: works include texts of various genres (parables, legends, songs); the space on which events unfold is cosmologized and ontological; micro and macro elements of the world are identical, isomorphic; spatio-temporal and socio-cultural oppositions are represented by the opposition of chaos and space, the motive of the initial precedent, the opposition of ancestors-descendants, the presence of totemic ancestors, the general oppositions of life and death; the character level is represented by the pantheon, the demiurgical cultural hero, the spirits of lower mythology; at the semantic level, the main conflict stands out as the relationship between Nature and Man, the natural world is positioned as an ideal of harmony and justice.