MAMIEVA I.V. THE IMAGE OF CHILDHOOD IN THE STORIES BY S.Z. KHUGAEV Print

The article represents the first study of the image of childhood as an independent and esthetic issue in the stories by S.Z. Khugaev, which is one of the key constants of the writer’s artistic world. A brief historical survey of the literary practice of Russian (the concept of childhood in the works by L.N. Tolstoy, S.T. Aksakov, N.G. Garin-Mikhailovsky, F.M. Dostoevsky, in the culture of the Silver Age, in the “thaw” period) and Ossetian writers allowed to identify the link between the actualization of the problem and the stages of dominance of the ideas of the life renewal in the society. Literary parallels with the story “Today I finished my night classes...” by K. Khetagurov were drawn at the level of ideological and imaginative perspective; verbal, narrative and conceptual structures of the works allowed to outline the continuity in ideological and aesthetic quest of the author, who is our contemporary. The features of childhood image typified in S. Khugaev’s small prose were considered from the perspective of family and environment. The principles of hermeneutical interpretation revealed the dominance of the moral dimension in its specific manifestations (mother’s sacrifical love of a, boys’ friendship as a feasible way for a child to resist the hardships of orphan's fate, role of the society in the upbringing of the younger generation, etc.). Particular emphasis in the analysis of the theme of wartime childhood is made on its components such as “orphanhood”, “fatherlessness”, “bread shortage”, “memory scorched by war”; in the works with the peacetime theme – on actualization of the problem of regulatory-educational function of etiquette, value-regulatory milestones of the Ossetian mentality. The final part represents the conclusions reflecting the specifics of the development of the childhood theme by S. Khugaev, and national literary tradition as a whole.

Keywords: literary tradition, K. Khetagurov, Khugaev’s small prose, world of childhood, child and adult, mother and child, expressive detail, psychology, metaphorical motivation, type of narration.


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