Специфика первых автобиографических повествований северной литературы Якутии («Жизнь Имтеургина-старшего» Т. Одулока, «Моё детство» Н. Тарабукина)

Abstract

The study aims to identify the properties and features of an autobiographical narrative in the first epic works of the northern literature of Yakutia (the Yukaghir novella “The Life of Imteurgin Senior” by T. Odulok and the Even novella “My Childhood” by N. Tarabukin). The paper examines the structure and type of narrative that determined the singularity of the genre and compositional-speech organisation of these works. The researcher traces the formation and specificity of autobiographical narrative forms in the northern literature of Yakutia, the development of the plot and chronotope of the novellas from the perspective of the author’s view of himself and history, as well as the functioning of autobiographical elements in the texts. The study is original in that it is the first to analyse the forms of expression of the “author’s self” (the author - autobiographical protagonist, the author-narrator, the author as a “prototype” of the protagonist, i.e. the biographical author as a “special subject of depiction” but not equal to the author-narrator), the correlation between the chronotopes of the protagonist and the author, biographical, historical and subjective time and space. As a result, the features of manifestation of the narrator, the character and the author in T. Odulok’s novella and the interaction of the author, the adult narrator and the child protagonist in N. Tarabukin’s novella have been determined.