Author's position in the folk dramas of L.N. Tolstoy

The subject of the study is the author's position in the folk plays of L.N. Tolstoy “The First Distiller, or How the Little Devil Earned a Crumb”, “From Her All the Qualities”, “Peter Khlebnik”, “Dramatic Arrangement of the Legend of Haggai”. The objectives of the study include identifying ways of expressing the author’s position in the writer’s dramatic texts, which is possible through the use of structural, mythopoetic methods, as well as the use of motive analysis techniques. The purpose of this article is to explore the features of expressing the author’s position in the “folk” dramas of L.N. Tolstoy. The relevance of the study is determined by the insufficient knowledge of the methods of updating the author's position in the writer's dramatic texts and the need to understand the originality of Tolstoy's dramaturgy in the holistic artistic and philosophical context of his work. In the comedy “The First Distiller, or How the Little Devil Earned the Edge,” the author directs the reader’s perception of events through stage directions and through the image of the hero participating in the event and observing it. In the play “From Her All the Qualities”, the author’s intention is expressed in the subjective description of the characters in the poster. In the “Dramatic Treatment of the Legend of Haggai” and “Peter the Bread Man”, Tolstoy’s appeal to the plot of a sinner who repented of his atrocities is revealed, which is in tune with the writer’s ideological search. The incompleteness of these plays is due to the unclear prospects for leaving for the author himself. It seems relevant and promising to further study Tolstoy’s dramatic heritage in the aspect of studying the methods used to express the author’s position, helping to correct the already established ideas about the literary anthropology of the writer.