"VILLAGE DETECTIVE" BY VIL LIPATOV AS A PARODY OF A POLICE NOVEL
In the story by V. Lipatov “Village Detective” (1968) used the comic techniques dating back to the tradition of folk culture, especially folk farce performances. V. Lipatov uses theatrical techniques to visualize what is going to make it more clear and visible. The story is written by the laws of drama and the script with a carefully prescribed staging, replicas, author’s remarks. Some comic scenes are a cascade of tricks performed in accordance with the tradition of “clownish actions”. The story consists of comic scenes which represent the cascade of the tricks executed according to the tradition of a comic short story which prominent features are: use of colloquial lexicon, a combination of incongruous words and concepts; paradoxical logic; parodying of traditional detective clichés; theatrical gestures, facial expressions; everyday lowered situations.