A NOVEL ABOUT MAHAJIRISM: GENRE AND STYLISTIC FEATURES (BASED ON THE WORKS OF B. TKHAITSUKHOV “A HANDFUL OF EARTH” AND B. SHINKUB “THE LAST OF THE DEPARTED”)

Abstract

The analysis of the genres and stylistic features of the Abkhazian and Abaza historical novel makes it possible to understand the uniqueness of the continuity relations and their national nature. The researcher considers the prose of B. Shinkub in a comparative and comparative plan with the phenomena of prose in the genetically related Abaza, in particular, with the novel by B. Tkhaitsukhov “A Handful of Earth”. The need for analogies and comparisons is also due to the ethnic and linguistic commonality of the Abkhazian and Abaza people, the similarity of the historical path of development that reflected the patterns of formation of these literatures, the kinship of moral ideals and philosophical and moral traditions, and the proximity of folklore and ethnographic origins. Abkhazian and Abaza prose have achieved some success in the development of the epic genres of the novel and the story, in which a significant role was played by the appeal of the writers B. Shinkub and B. Tkhaitsukhov, to the ethno-artistic and philosophical-moral traditions of the people, which contributed to the deepening of the historicism of artistic thinking and the psychologism of images.