Folk Art in the Poetics of V. M. Shukshin

Abstract

The article gives the review of various aspects of folk art functioning as artistic features of V. M. Shukshin's prose. The universal pictorial and allegorical means of Shukshin, covering the labor, everyday, festive forms of Russian national culture, is a folk song. Decorative and applied art as an ekphrastic element forms an additional imaginative system in the writer's aesthetic system. Dance usually serves as a means of psychological analysis: a sign of the inner conflict of the character, a reflex of his existential experience, a marker of a catastrophic world perception. The buffoonery of Shukshin's characters goes back to the tradition of foolishness and Skomorokhs clowning and refers to the national problem of searching for a spiritual ideal, the sacred manner of condemnation / blessing through laughter.