THE CONCEPT OF "WOLF" IN THE WORKS OF RUSSIAN AND TATAR WRITERS (BASED ON THE PROSE OF I. BUNIN AND N. GIMATDINOVA)

In this study, the authors address the problem of the representation of the concept "wolf" in Russian and Tatar prose of the twentieth century. In light of the national language image of the world and the relationship with the folklore tradition, the linguistic and semantic aspects of the realization of the linguistic and literary concept "wolf" in I. Burin's and N. Gimatdinova's works are investigated. The authors analyze the associative-semantic groups in the realization of the concept "wolf" in the works under consideration: "wolf - man", "wolf - nature", "nature - civilization", which are most typical for the writers of the twentieth century and are closely connected with the folklore tradition The image concept of wolf becomes the original yardstick of the deeds of the characters, the criterion of their moral characteristics, which makes Russian and Tatar prose similar. At the same time, in Russian and Tatar literature the concept "wolf", closely connected with the folklore tradition of the two peoples, reflects two different branches of human consciousness the western and the eastern, which, among other things, defines the concept "wolf" as a national category. The wolf for the Tatars is a totemic animal, the keeper of the family, at the same time in Russian folklore this hypostasis of the image of wolf practically disappears. Burin defines wolves through the irrational principle and associates them with the feeling of Love as the foundations of Being. N. Gimatdinova, also gravitating toward folklore tradition and irrationalism at the same time, symbolically linking the image of wolves with the foundations of Being, first of all puts forward the idea of harmony between man and nature.