, ON MELANCHOLY IN THE BARD SONGS BY BULAT OKUDZHAVA AND LO TA-YU: A COMPARATIVE AND TYPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS // Bulletin of BSU. Philology. - 2021. №4. . - С. 69-76.

ON MELANCHOLY IN THE BARD SONGS BY BULAT OKUDZHAVA AND LO TA-YU: A COMPARATIVE AND TYPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

DOI: 10.18101/2686-7095-2021-4-69-76 UDK: 821.161.09

The article compares the lyrical mood in the verses and songs by Bulat Okudzhava and Lo Ta-yu. Russian B. Okudzhava and Chinese Lo Ta-yu (罗大佑) are famous bards and path-breakers of a whole trend in the field of bard songs of the two coun- tries. Both authors convey a sad and melancholic mood. Based on Mikhail Bakhtin's con- cept of “outsideness”, we reveal the social reasons for the appearance of the author's songs by B. Okudzhava and Lo Ta-yu against the background of the bard boom in China and Russia. The article presents a comparative and typological analysis of images of home and a woman. Nostalgia in the songs by the bard poets is caused by worries about the destruc- tion of a home, which is a sourse of both melancholy and motivation for salvation. We have considered various ways of expressing melancholy, the influence of religious philos- ophy and Buddhist culture on the songs and verses by B. Okudzhava and Lo Ta-yu. It has been revealed that there are typologically similar ways of expressing nostalgia in the works of both bards, which facilitate the intercultural dialogue.

bard song, melancholy, the bard boom, nostalgia, outsideness; woman's image, image of home; a comparative and typological analysis.