Mari National Text in Russian Translations: Based on the Poems of Gennady Oyar

Abstract

This research work has been done in the field of the current literary direction related to the study of local texts, the variety of which is the national text. The national literary text is considered by the authors of the article as a text containing information for the reconstruction by the reader / researcher of the nationally specific socio-cultural space of the people. The studies of the national text in literary translations, namely, the philological analysis of the Mari national text in Russian translations is given in the article. The research materials are the poems of Gennady Oyar, translated into Russian mainly by Gennady Smirnov. The methods of contextual, conceptual and structural-semantic analysis of local texts are used in the work. The article considers the literary techniques and means relevant for the formation of the national text (extra-textual elements, toponyms and anthroponyms, elements of the national landscape, portrait, interior, signs of national life, material and spiritual culture, linguistic inclusions, folklore and mythological images and motifs, etc.). The national text in Russian translations gives a fairly complete picture of the Mari as an ancient people, which has a unique culture, carefully preserves its native language, spiritual traditions, feels a blood connection with distant ancestors, paganism, making up the cultural core of the nation as a society, seeks to preserve spiritual purity and aspiration to the ideals of goodness and beauty.