Features of the artistic style in the works of P. A. Oyunsky

The subject of the study is the features of the artistic style in the works of P. A. Oiunsky. The object of the research is the writer's stories "The Fox and the Badger," "The Argument," "Is it Reality or a Dream?!," "How a Yakut Transformed into an Evil Spirit." The author examines the stylistic features of the texts in detail. The work presents an analysis of the stylistic techniques used by the writer. The aim of the research is to identify the characteristics of the author's style in P. Oiunsky's works. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were addressed: to identify the details of the author's style; to determine the main artistic techniques. Attention is focused on the details of the author's intent: the creation of traditional images and their functioning; interpretations and transformations of folklore motifs that become fundamental to the entire plot and the work as a whole. Special attention is paid to the influence of folklore traditions on the writer's creative method, which continues both traditional and innovative techniques. The methodological aspects of the problem of the interaction between literature and folklore consist of the works of A. N. Veselovsky, U. B. Dalgat, V. Ya. Propp, V. A. Semenov, V. B. Okorokova, and Yu. G. Khazankovich. Descriptive method, observation method, and stylistic analysis method were applied to identify the stylistic specifics and to generalize the results of the research on P. Oiunsky's works. The traditions of oral folk creativity are an "organic component" of the artistic world of the Yakut writer P. A. Oiunsky in the early 20th century. The main conclusions of the conducted research are: the use of techniques of oral folk creativity, Yakut heroic epic olonkho (proverbs, linguistic repetitions, constant epithets, etc.); the application and adaptation of plots from fairy tales, fairy tale elements; the use of techniques characteristic of oral folk creativity – such as grotesque, fantasy, satire, and allegory. The novelty of this work lies in the fact that this study for the first time identifies and describes the features of the artistic style in P. Oiunsky's stories. The work reveals the influence of folklore on the disclosure of the author's intention. P. Oiunsky's stories present a holistic traditional worldview of the Yakut people in the early 20th century.