The image of the “iron city” in the Yakut prose of the twentieth century

Abstract

The article interprets the image of the “iron city” in Yakut prose in the context of the geopoetic discourse of the city/village, the degree and nature of perception of which can contribute to the reflection of the peculiarities of the national worldview and the dynamics of the mental landscape in literature. In the context of the stated theme, the consideration of the image of the prose hero, whose consciousness is extremely responsive to the modifications of time and the surrounding landscape (the new space of the city as noisy, interesting, frightening) is of special importance. The identification of the boundaries and borders of space in the context of the chronotopic system accentuates interest in the liminal (intermediate) chronotope of the road as a special chronotopic complex, also iron images, white motor ship, airplane, train, and so on. The process of evolution of the hero of the road, which is fully revealed in the space of the road, most clearly reflects the problem of human self-identification in a huge urban space. Such a perspective of research contributes to the disclosure of genre and style evolution of Yakut literature as a developing dynamic system, and, importantly, to the identification of unique artistic markers of the author's style, as well as the image of the writer as an original carrier of national identity