Liminal World in Yakut Culture: The Role and Place of Man in the Space of the Road

The relevance of this article is dictated by the need to study one of the main components of the Yakut geocultural landscape - the liminal road space, which is considered to be an fictional system of its own. In this regard the scientific novelty of the article is obvious: the need to view the liminal (intermediate) space as a semantic structure manifested in the constancy of images, universals that have cultural, historical, and mental commonality. The study of one of the interesting aspects of the local text, the intermediate space, has not received detailed development in Yakut science to this day. The purpose of this article is to identify the borderlines and space boundaries in particular in the context of the chronotopic system of the Yakut novel. The author emphasizes the interest in the liminal chronotope and the road as a special chronotopic complex that strengthens other spatial structures, or rather topos of the alas (villages) and cities, without which it is impossible to build a complete geopoetic picture of the Yakut world. In the context of the above theme, the image of a literary hero, whose consciousness is extremely responsive to modifications of the surrounding landscape, acquires a new semantic function. The author of the article adheres to the viewpoint that the process of evolution of the hero of the path, which is fully revealed in the space of the road, most clearly shows cultural signs of the perception of the problem of life and death which in different literary periods acquire unexpectedly interesting properties. The results of the research undertaken in this article can be used in the fictional landscape study, which is becoming the most relevant in recent times in Russian Text Linguistics.