NARRATIVE FEATURES AND COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURE OF P. DIBIROV’S NOVEL “AN ORNAMENT ON MY PALM”

Abstract

The article examines narrative features and compositional structure of P. Dibirova’s novel “An Ornament On My Palm”. The plot of the work is based on the stages of the biography of the author’s own grandfather, a famous Dagestani art historian, an author of books on history of stone carving, more than sixty scientific articles, with more than a hundred students around the world. The theme of the novel, the plot, the reproduced events reveal the sphere of an individual’s life that has been unknown to others for many years. The artistic world of this work turns out to be correlated with the inner world of the main character in the totality of all its components. P. Dibirova shows vicissitudes of his fate at different stages of life. The main character of the novel Paruk, who became a participant in the bloody battles near Stalingrad, lives with memories of his native home, of his loved ones. After going through hard trials, injuries, German concentration camps, miraculously surviving, he returns home and now barely gets used to the half-forgotten reality. The author manages to convey the internal contradictions in the soul of his hero, the painful disorder of reason and feelings and the difficulty with which he manages to find himself anew in a peaceful life.