GENDER ASPECT IN "MAGIC STORIES" BY P.P. MURATOV
The article discusses the functionality of female characters in the cycle "Magic Stories" (1922) by P. Muratov, as well as their importance in identifying the worldview priorities of the writer and the structure of his works. It is noted that the gender perspective of the stories motivates the narrative synthesis of magical situations, the criterion of naturalness, the aestheticization of portraits and landscapes. Muratov's broad interpretation of the definition of "landscape" is described, which is substantiated in his theoretical works. It is noted that Muratov's gender approach to the depiction of characters explains the unusual plot situations and the specifics of female characters in the Magical Stories cycle. The magical in Muratov's prose is formed either through the exclusivity of the female psychotype, or through its mythologized perception by other characters, or due to an acute plot situation. The female factor gives Muratov's small prose an extraordinariness that not only disrupts the usual course of life, but also takes the narrative beyond the realm of a realistic logical narrative. Conclusions are drawn about Muratov's attitude to the cognitive mission of women in understanding the world order, to their dualistic essence, the role of beauty and eros in achieving the unity of being, to the ratio of male and female. The writer's perception of myth as a set of axiological ideas is substantiated. Through an appeal to the analysis of the duality of the female nature, Muratov creates his own mythopoetic model of the world. The article takes into account the factor of antiquity in the depiction of characters, the role of female characters in the spatio-temporal composition of texts. An idea about the connection between the content of Muratov's stories and the ontological and aesthetic views of the Renaissance and the ideas of V. Solovyov is expressed in the paper. It is concluded that the gender dominant plays a key role in the content and structure of Muratov's works. Despite the fact that the feminine principle is often associated with spontaneity, chaos, disorder, it is precisely this, according to Muratov's concept, that leads to an understanding of the harmony of the natural world.