Folklore traditions in the prose by Y. Koval (based on the story "The Lightest Boat in the World")
There is described the functioning of the basic elements of the poetics of the bylichka genre in the story by Y. Koval “The Lightest Boat in the World”. The structure of bylichka, its composition, system of images, poetic devices are adopted by Y. Koval and rethought with particular artistic goals and tasks.