THE FUNCTIONAL ROLE OF THE DOCUMENTARY PRINCIPLE IN THE MODERN NON-FICTION AND FICTION PROSE

Abstract

The article reveals a problem of the relationship between fiction and non-fiction material in modern novel prose. The fact that the document does not begin to perform auxiliary functions, but becomes a means of creating imagery, embodies various authorial goals and strategies, and initiates serious genre transformations of epic prose is of particular relevance to the research. The article reveals the main reasons for the strengthening of the documentary principle in literature, due to modern trends towards stylistic and genre uncertainty, poly-citationality, intertextuality, meta-poetry and other innovative textual strategies. It has been revealed that these processes also have manifested themselves in the North Caucasian prose, which is originally typologically associated with all-Russian literature. The novelty of the research is seen in the consideration of the stylistic direction of event-chronicle prose, the definition and description of which is now introduced into scientific circulation. The author has come to the conclusion that the modern North Caucasian prose is based on the principles and methods of objective historicism and documentalism in the disclosure of historical topics. This seems to be extremely important for the North Caucasian literature, which has received an opportunity for a realistic, documented reproduction of the tragic pages of the national history only since the 1990s, and requires a separate study.