KAPITON CHAKHKIEV: WRITER, THINKER, HUMANIST

Abstract

The article is the first in a series of studies about the artistic heritage of Kapiton Chakhkiev, which played an important role in the history of Ingush literature. The relevance of the topic is indisputable, since with a certain study of the writer’s work, the issues of genre and style features still remain open. The study notes that the formation of the creative individuality of the artist of the word was on the 30-50s of the twentieth century; the personal and literary fate of K. Chakhkiev is reflected in the tragic realities of the era – dispossession of kulaks, deportation, trial by the GULAG. The creativity of K. Chakhkiev is characterized by the breadth of the genre-style and ideological-thematic range, the variety of problems solved in the socio-psychological and moral-philosophical aspects. The analysis focuses on the writer’s prose, although the genre range of its classical heritage is much wider: it is represented by poetry and journalism.