Keyword: «the interpreting function»

In article the purpose to consider a concept "the Russian song" as the difficult mental education with multipurpose system of expressiveness and pictorialism in the art text including the individual and author's picture of the world which has found reflection in ZakharPrilepin's novel "Monastery" is set. It is proved that a concept "the Russian song" performs the following traditional functions in the work: expression of an author's position; disclosure of the Russian soul (grief, melancholy, daring, poetry); manifestation of the Russian character (patriotism, sincerity, openness); characteristic of psychological state of the hero; means of an emotional discharge, etc. The concept "the Russian song" is close in the representation to concepts "truth", "freedom", "honor". The crisis of spirituality which has happened at the beginning of the XX century has caused formation of new functionality: the Russian song began to perform function of an absurdization of reality ("hand bell"), identifications as adaptability (MoiseySolomonovich's song), function of masking of vicious passions, ideological function that wasn't peculiar to "the Russian song" earlier.