MYTHOPOETICS OF PETER ALESHKOVSKY’S FAIRY TALE “RUDLE AND BURDLE”
Modern fairy tales continue the traditions of previous fairy tales, they preach the good word, educate and entertain, but do it through the genre transformation, the prism of the authors’ experience and their worldview. The article offers a new look at the mythopoetic space of a literary tale through the holistic analysis of the original literary tale “Rudle and Burdle” by P. Aleshkovsky (2003), revealing its mythopoetic features and artistic originality. By comprehending the peculiarities of the archetypal plot, the mythological subtext of the work, the system of the characters in the fairy tale, and its intertextual connections, we reveal its deep meaningful features. The tale, saturated with mythological archaic, fantastical elements, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic images, is artistically a meta-genre work that combines various literary traditions and genre canons, close both to children’s fantasy, a neomythus, a fairy tale, a parable, a legend, and travel, thus uniting a complex of moral-philosophical and socio-psychological problems that are relevant at all times. The system of mythologemes and binary oppositions, mythological allegories and allusions form the author’s model of the world. Mythopoetic plot twists and archetypal prototypes largely determine the semantic polysemy and artistic complexity of the fairy tale by P. Aleshkovsky.