A Folklorist’s Notes on the Sources of Fyodor Abramov’s Short Story The  Happiest Woman

A collection of folklore put together by Fyodor Abramov in his homeland, the Pinezhsky District of the Arkhangelsk Region, in the summer of 1939, is stored at the Manuscript Department of the IRLI. It contains an autobiographical account of one of а woman who conducted traditional wedding ceremonies. In 1981, the writer used this record in a literary text based on the patterns inherent in folklore. The images of the main characters of the story emerge from Abramov’s observations of the real prototypes, and are shaped by the writer’s ﬁne work with the lively oral heritage of the Pinegans, enriched by the other sources from the treasury of the peasant culture.

Keywords

Fyodor Abramov, folklore, artistic generalization of everyday speech

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28.03.2019

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29.03.2019

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GOST	Yakubovskaya E. A Folklorist’s Notes on the Sources of Fyodor Abramov’s Short Story «The Happiest Woman» // Russkaia literatura – 2019. – Issue 1 C. 227-236 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/rusliter/s013160950004547-5-1-en (circulation date: 23.04.2024). DOI: 10.31860/0131-6095-2019-1-227-236
MLA	Yakubovskaya, E. I. "A Folklorist’s Notes on the Sources of Fyodor Abramov’s Short Story «The Happiest Woman»." Russkaia literatura 1 (2019):227-236. DOI: 10.31860/0131-6095-2019-1-227-236
APA	Yakubovskaya E. (2019). A Folklorist’s Notes on the Sources of Fyodor Abramov’s Short Story «The Happiest Woman». Russkaia literatura (1), pp.227-236 DOI: 10.31860/0131-6095-2019-1-227-236

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