LITERARY MYSTIFICATION, OR "ETHNIC OTHER" TECHNIQUES IN TIMOFEI BELYAEV’S STORY "KUZ-KURPYACH"
Khubbitdinova Nerkes Akhmetovna
Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Ufa Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract. The article examines the peculiarities of using literary mystification, or "ethnic other" technique in Russian literature. As an exam-ple, the author analyzes literary adaptation of the Bashkir epos made by the Russian writer T. S. Belyaev who came out as "ethnic other", i.e. the Bashkir narrator - sesen. The paper concludes that an obscure serf - an amateur writer, admirer of G. R. Derzhavin’s poetry, skillfully used his method of literary mystification in his own story "Kuz-Kurpyach" which won the acknowledgment and popularity among the contemporary authors.
Key words and phrases: Russian literature, literary mystification, "ethnic other", Russian poet, Bashkir narrator - sesen, Bashkir story
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