Skaz stylization in modern Russian prose

The skazform of the narrative is the artistic discovery of N. V. Gogol and an indicator of the national identity of Russian literature.For modern authors the skaz remains a popular narrative strategy.Continuing the traditions of Russian classics, Russian writers of the XXI century turn to skaz stylization to recreate the national character.However, modern writers argue that the possibilities of skazare far from exhausted.In such iconic texts of the modern literary process asA. V. Korolev’s“The Person-Tongue” and A. V. Ponizovskiy’s “Turning into a Listening Ear”, the skaz not only creates vivid speech portraits of “heroes from the people”, but also acts as a marker of natural speech.The authors emphasize such definitions of the skaznarrative as spontaneity and improvisation of the statement.