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In archaic folkloric texts of Siberian peoples we come across a number of narrative devices that closely resemble those that can be found in modernist and postmodernist prose. In his efforts to be as faithful as possible, the performer of a folkloric text refers to someone from whom he has heard his story, or puts an intermediary between himself and the listeners. This can be the personified story...
The article discusses mythological and folkloric motifs in Pasternakʼs novel Doktor Zhivago. There is a myth connected with the main hero of the novel: Iurii Zhivago and St. George, cf. the poem ‘Skazka’. Some characters, such as Anna Ivanovna Gromeko and the cook Ustinia, tell mythological stories. With her knowledge of folktales and magic the “soldatka” Kubarikha is the most important representative...
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