ROLE OF MYTH AND LEGENDS IN THE PROSE OF ERKIN SAMANDAR
Abstract
The article analyses the role of myths, legends used in the stylization of Erkin Samandar’s novel “The Well of God”. The role of folk prose highlighted in the forming the plot of realistic novel. Characters portraits comparatively studied in folklore with its alternatives. The author's novel “The Well of God” depicts the mythological predictors infiltrating visible, imaginary angelic images, dreams and other motives. The article says that Erkin Samandar skillfully incorporated into his novel the exaggerated images of the epic, the character of giant people and folk symbols. Also analyzed the similarities in the prose of Erkin Samandar to the images in the epics of the “Gurogly” (Grave’s son) series, including the symbols in the epics such as “Arab Tangan”, “Birth of Gurogly”. It has been investigated, that the novelist used the plot of the epic “Asil and Karam”, which is widespread among the Turkic people. In short, the myths, legends, images, artistic depictive means, motives were the main means for ensuring the art of the novel “The Well of God”.
Keywords: Erkin Samandar, “Tangri qudug’i (God's well)”, folklore novel, myth, legend.
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