THE AUTHOR’S CONTINUATION IN THE NOVEL HERO: ABOUT THE POSSIBLE SOURCES OF THE M.M. BAKHTIN’S FORMULA

Abstract

The folklore fairy ballad can show the universally psychological base of the author’s continuation in the novel hero, that was described by M.M. Bakhtin. On the one hand, the ballad had reflected the evolution of the initiatory relations with the personified fairy Nature and its agent in the various folklore genres. The result of this evolution, including under the influence of the church, would the mutual lovely attraction, that had assumed the total self-continuing in each other as the antipodes. On the other hand, the ballad lyricism had allowed the executor to identify himself in the hero and to continue himself in the hero’s face in the fairy counterparty. The hero of the social-psychological novel had replaced for the author the fairy counterparty. But the self-continuing in the hero gad lost its initiatory base and so was no more reflected.