Polystadiality and temporality of Karachay-Balkar novel (based on A. Urusova's dilogy "Ai-sanat")

The article examines the preconditions for the early Soviet novel's formation and development (multi-character, multi-linear, chronicle novels, etc.), its evolutionary and transformative tendencies, and its structural and substantive components. The emergence of a new cultural matrix in the first decades of Soviet reality also determined a unique form of large-format prose, characterized by a combination of utilitarian, ideological, and revolutionary-educational texts of the early Soviet era with the qualities of a fairly well-developed literature. This applies directly to the works of North Caucasian authors, including the Karachay writer A.M. Urusova. Her novel-dilogy "Aisanat" is an autobiographical work, officially dated to the 1970s and 1980s. However, a number of indicators suggest that the novel's text was created over a long period, with some of it occurring in the pre-war period. This latter is supported by the presence of the chronicle novel's features, a trend in Soviet literature in the 1930s. Furthermore, the novel's narrative is marked by a combination of fragments and plot periods with differing chronological statuses – from a linear and uniform chronological flow to temporal systems formed from elements of varying chronological localization. Moreover, the authors of the article believe that the temporal characteristics of the aesthetic text are one of the essential criteria for its historical affiliation.

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