VICES OF MODERN SOCIETY IN AISHAT MALACHIEVA’S SATIRES

Abstract

The article analyzes satires of the modern Avar poet Ai-shat Malachieva, directed against the injustice and vices of modern society: cruelty, stupidity, predation, hypocrisy, immorality, etc. The author notes the poetess’ acute experience of the moral disintegration of society, the loss of high value orientations, and the change in the scale of values. Revealing all aspects of these problems – from everyday life to Being, from concrete locality to universal scales, Malachieva’s satires embody both a critical assessment of the state of society and the search for the causes of the collapse of the “sad time”. Basically, the analysis of reality is carried out by stringing on the end-to-end intonation of civil pain an evaluative, negative list of the complex of negativity, the reasons that raise the question: “How to love such homeland? Why should I bow my head to her?” This list contains locally specific names of components and branches of evil, or their metaphorical names, or associative-comparative characteristics. The main reason for the collapse of the society, according to the poetess, are no will to talk, the low level of civil consciousness of society. The poetess speaks of the need to purposefully shape the political, social, and moral climate of the time.