Abstract

The article examines the poetics of things in Kalmyk lyrics of the 20th - early 21st centuries. as a memory of the Siberian exile, created by poets of different generations in different years in their native and Russian languages. The relevance and novelty of the article is determined by the lack of knowledge of the world of things, reflected in Kalmyk lyrics in the context of the Siberian exile of the Kalmyk people during the period of Stalinist repressions (1943-1957). In the poems, things are presented in the plot, updating in the title of the work certain markers and symbols that characterize the existence of exiled people in a foreign environment during and after the war, in conditions of hunger, cold, illness, and death. Certain things in the texts convey the general atmosphere of everyday life and existence, including through the use of personification, metaphor, comparison, dreams, and memories. The motifs of personal and historical memory in Kalmyk lyrics actualize the connection between generations both in the past and in the present. The original texts of the authors preserve the tradition of Kalmyk versification

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