HISTORICAL NOVEL IN AVAR LITERATURE

Abstract

The aim of the study of this work is to consider genres of historical-revolutionary and retrospective novels in Avar literature. Retrospective novels have a common feature – heightened attention to everyday life, the setting in which the novel takes place, but not to reliable historical facts. The typological characteristics of the heroes of the historical novel are derived. The heroes of the retrospective novel are the result of the author’s literary imagination, they pretend to be real, historically significant personalities. The strength of the author’s generalization in them is such, that the reader is facing an agitated story about how the poor people in Dagestan lived and fought before the revolution, how the new and progressive in the people’s way of life conquered the old, reactionary, how man grew and changed under the influence of new conditions. The novels “Heroes in Fur Coats” by R. Dinmagomaev, “Sulak the Witness” by M. Khurshilov, “Revenge” by M. Magomedov can be classified as retrospective, since these works are written on the basis of historically undocumented events, and the characters of these novels are fictional. The historical novel shows the hard life of the mountaineers before the revolution, shows the process of the growth of migrant workers caused by poorness, the angriness of the poor towards the rich, the help of the Russian proletariat, which managed to order this struggle in the right direction, mark the main path for the formation of the characters of the main persons. As a result, substantive aspects of the retrospective novel are analyzed in detail.