AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PROSE OF MUSA BEKSULTANOV IN THE CONTEXT OF DOCUMENTARY FICTION OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS

Abstract

The article examines the leading types of non-fiction in the artistic literature of the North Caucasus in the second half of XX – beginning of XXI centuries, is considered as an example of the memoir-autobiographical (with a lyrical component) story of the Chechen writer Musa Beksultanov “The far shores of the river of life”, is the level and quality of knowledge of the matter in the Humanities, discusses the scientific novelty of the article. The paper reveals the most typical signs of this type of literature in the context of literary process of the Northern Caucasus. The goal of identifying the commonality of M. Beksultanov’s autobiographical and documentary-journalistic prose in terms of identifying signs of national moral, spiritual, and ethical identity is achieved. As a result of the analysis, the author comes to the conclusion about the uniqueness of the writer’s artistic world, the significance of his experience for the development of Chechen literature.