“HOW DID ST. STEPHAN CRASH THE EVIL BIRCH”: SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF V. V. ROZANOV'S ENTERPRETATION OF THE FACTS OF TRADITIONAL CULTURE

The article is devoted to study of literary and philosophic work of V. V. Rozanov “How did st. Stephen crashed the evil birch” in the context of traditional culture. The relevance and scientific novelty of the presented work is provided by following sentences: the identification of fundamental factors that allow the researchers investigate literary and philosophical creativity of V. V. Rozanov in the context of traditional culture: 1) presence of the main theme of his reflexions — the opposition of Christianity and paganism in Rozanov’s creativity; 2) the conditionality of Rozanov’s philosophical reflections with his individual writing style , the ability to comprehend the philosophical and religious foundations of the world through style. The purpose of this work is to analyze and describe the methods of realization of basic stylistic dominants which are able to explicate meaningful pagan-Christian monotheme of V. V. Rozanov unmetaphormism, the aphoristic nature, folklore stylization. The given observations are illustrated with examples in the article of V. V. Rozanov “How did st. Stephan crashed “evil birch” and how did drinking started in Russia”, included by the author in the book “At the pagan yard”. The article analyzes stylistics and language elements of folklore stylization: the beginnings of circulation, repetition, impersonation, inversion, the pleonasms, comparison and their expressive-stylistic function. This aspect of the study of philosophical and literary heritage of V. V. Rozanov has a wide field of perspective research, connected with further analysis, generalization, and systematization of language means which are able to explicate language view of the world of V. V. Rozanov in the context of traditional culture.