Ориентальные и региональные мифопоэтические образы птиц в повести С.-М. Салинского «Птицы возвращаются в сны»

Abstract

The article focuses on studying mythopoetics as a meaning-formative basis of S.-M. Salinsky’s story “Birds Come Back to Dreams”. Scientific originality of the paper is conditioned by the fact that for the first time S.-M. Salinsky’s story is analysed from the viewpoint of oriental and regional mythopoetics and also by the fact that the writer is considered as a bearer of frontier mentality - the author’s consciousness was formed under the conditions of the interethnic multicultural space. S.-M. Salinsky’s artistic world represents the Far Eastern frontier culture where an individual’s worldview formation occurred under the conditions of ethno-migrational, ethno-social and ethno-religious transformations of the middle of the XIX - the beginning of the XX century. The research findings are as follows: the author shows how under the conditions of the Far Eastern multicultural space, frontier mythology formed the artist’s worldview. Bird images and related motives in the writer’s creative work are associated with different spiritual and religious conceptions and beliefs. Folkloric syncretism (combination of the Russian, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Tungusic folklore elements) formed a natural basis of Pacific Russia’s ethno-cultural worldview.