Nikolay Damdinov’s poems: on the lyricization of the genre in the literary process in Buryatia in the 1960s

He article discusses the process of lyricization of the poem genre in one of the national literatures of Russia in the 1960s. On the example of Nikolay Damdinov's poems (1932-1999), a national poet of Buryatia and author of various modifications of this genre, the tendency towards subjectivization of poetic narration and the image of the epic storyteller characteristic of the "thaw" literature period is analyzed. It is argued that alongside the hero's lyrical monologue in the poems "The Song of the Steppes" and "Father's Name", the poet develops narration from the perspective of a traditional Buryat storyteller (uligers). It is proven that in the poems "The Return of the Batyr","Storm", and "The Song about Dorzhi Banzarov" - this peculiar trilogy of the poet - the narrator's image resembles that of an uligershin-storyteller, while the narration represents a confession of a person intimately connected to the fate of the epic hero and closely linked to significant events in the life of the people. This confession takes place within the framework of a miraculous, almost mystical event in which the destinies of the hero and the storyteller collide with extraordinary (sociohistorical and natural-cosmic) events. The conclusion is drawn that in the unity of the lyrical narrator and the epic hero in Nikolay Damdinov's poems, the qualities of a creative personality contemplating the essence of national existence are reflected, merging in the reader's consciousness with the author's personality.