Mythopoetics of novels by V. Shukshin “Viburnum red” and A. Kudravets “Radanitsa”

In the last third of the twentieth century, Russian and Belarusian traditionalist prose activates mythopoetic archetypes, and there is a synthesis with individual elements of romantic, modernist and postmodern aesthetics. The purpose of the article is to identify national features of the appeal of Russian and Belarusian writers of the twentieth century to mythological structures (on the example of novels by V. Shukshin “Viburnum red” and A. Kudravets “Radanitsa”). The results of the study. Mythologism in the works by Russian and Belarusian writers in the last decades of the twentieth century is deeply conscious, reflective in nature, which determines the philosophical, intellectual orientation of their works. Separate mythologemes, reminiscences, allusions are used by writers so that they could be recognized by a reader and contain the “code” of the artistic message. The article reveals the ways V. Shukshin and A. Kudravets address mythological structures, the meaning and functions of the elements of mythopoetics in realistic prose. The author of the article notes that the compositional organization of the novels “Viburnum red” and “Radanitsa” correlates with the gospel parable of the prodigal son, which made it possible to reveal some existential issues that were relevant in the last third of the twentieth century.