PARABLES OF TRUTH IN POEMS BY D. KUGULTINOV AND M. KHONINOV ("NO TROUBLE KNOWS THAT POET...", "THE TRUTH THAT FINDS ITS HOST")
The analysis ofparables of truth in the poem "Zovlng Uga Schulgch " (No Trouble Knows That Poet...) by D. Kugultinov and in the poem "Unn Ezan Olna" (The Truth That Finds Its Host) by M. Khoninov revealed some invariants ofa minor epic genre which is essentially didactic and provides its characters with an alternative of ethic choice. Kugultinov reduces the text and plot which results in a loss of duality, thus creating a necessity of further comments and interpretations. Khoninov presents a parable with a developed and consistent narrative involving characters that act as subjects of ethic choice and make their decisions. The local situation of Kugultinov's plot - a poet's truth and false -proves largely generalized and basically expresses personal attitudes towards some fundamental categories. Meanwhile, Khoninov's plot line is initially philosophical: a struggle of Truth and Falsehood, Good and Evil within a human. The Truth's passivity in the first parable is determined by the subject's (poet's) self-exposure and by the Truth's fatigue in the second one. The alternative of choice for the Truth in Knoninov's parable is supported by life as such - the Seed. The original parables of the Kalmyk poets focus on the national versification traditions. The comparison of the authors' parables containing corresponding couplets facilitates the identification of the genre form and contents on the topic of truth.