PROBLEMS AND CHARACTERS IN M. BASHAEV’S NOVEL “THE RUNAWAY GIRL”

Abstract

The article highlights images of some characters, as well as a few socio-cultural issues raised by a Lak writer Magomed Bashaev (1910-1979) in his novel “The Runaway Girl”. The introduction to the article proves that this work appearance is natural from the literature in the Dagestan nations languages in the late XX century general development point of view. At that time such form as a novel became dominant. Aspects of the economic and socio-cultural situation in the modern Republic of Dagestan that took place in the 1910s, during the story action, are investigated. It is demonstrated that its basis consists of real events that took place at that time in the Lak district. The main and some minor characters are characterized. The novel’s connections with the folklore of the Dagestan nations, other works written in this region, as well as national and world literary classics are highlighted, the appeal to which in the text creates vivid images.