B. V. Shergins tale as an object of folklore and literary interaction

The relevance of researching the specificity of Shergins creativity is that this study has access to serious problems of modern literature criticism, in the first place - to the problem of folklorism in literature. The article first shows all possible folklore sources of B.V. Shergins tale The Fox-Confessor and nature of their transformation. This work analyses used by the writer typical images for the fairy tale, the features of poetics and the language.