Mythopoetics of novel by Nikolai Verevochkin «The mammoth’s tooth»

Abstract

The article discusses the peculiarities of the myth-making of the Kazakhstan’s writer of the new generation N. Verevochkin. Settles the question of the originality of the plot of the novel «Zub mamonta» («The Mammoth’s Tooth»). The article defines intertextual links with the story «Farewell to the Mother» by V. Rasputin, with myths about Atlantis, Noah’s Ark. The article also discusses the basic mythologems (a sunken village, man-made sea and a new sinless world, a city like an ark, dam and crack in it, mammoth as retribution), and it is given an interpretation of the characters’ images.