Collective authorship as one of manifestations of transitional period from folklore to literature

The problem of collective authorship as one of manifestations of transitional period from folklore to literature is considered on the example of the Tuvinian literature of 1930-40-s. The author understands the importance of this problem as the fact of actualization of collective authorship in Tuva in 1930-40-s provides a possibility to restore a phenomenon of literature genesis, to find a complex gradual transition from traditionalism to individual author's creative activity.