Abstract:
Tatar literature for children is genetically associated with folklore. The influence of folklore on the development of Tatar literature for children took place in the form of artistic reception and the processing of children's folklore genres by the authors of works for children.
Folklore always played an important role for writers, being an inexhaustible source of inspiration and the way of learning the cultural heritage of the Tatar people. The elements of folklore, folk poetic subjects, motifs, images, archetypes, genre-stylistic forms, etc. enrich and nourish the modern literature for children even now.
And so, the article examines various approaches to the introduction of folklore material into an artistic text of the Tatar children's prose of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It is proved that folklore acts as the indicator of ethnic-psychological characteristics of people, through which writers seek to disclose philosophical views and moral ideals. When referring to folklore, the authors strive to achieve such goals as: the reflection of hero's life specifics within the described reality, a reader's approach to the atmosphere of the narrated reality, the enrichment of the work semantic component, the awakening of associative feelings in readers. The works where the main theme is the raising of national consciousness, use folklore samples more often and more harmoniously with the main text.
