Fidarova, Rima Ya., Kaytova, Irina A. SOCIALIST REALISM IN OSSETIAN LITERATURE OF THE 60-80s OF THE XXth CENTURY: QUESTIONS OF THEORY Print

Keywords: Ossetian literature, «thaw», realism, socialist realism, party membership, novel-myth, mythological subjects.

Ossetian Soviet literature in the 60-80s of the XXth century in accordance with its aesthetic principles convincingly reflected both the socio-historical conditions of life of its subject — the Ossetian people, and the spiritual and moral features of the existence of Soviet society, due to the dialectics of its ideological views on social and national reality. A significant evolution of social consciousness was caused by the political atmosphere in the postwar years, in particular, in the second half of the 1950s, the «thaw» of the 1960s and brewing in the first half of the 1980s. trends in public life and public consciousness that led to the restructuring in the second half of the 1980s, the most Important «tools» for Ossetian Soviet literature in the 60‑80‑ies of XX century was its leading artistic method of socialist realism. A significant evolution of public consciousness led to qualitative changes in fiction, which affected primarily the essence and features of socialist realism. In the proposed article socialist realism is considered as an artistic method and as an artistic direction. As the method of socialist realism remains true to its historical mission and continues the tradition of the first «hard» type, which, according to our concept, functioned in 30‑50‑ies of XX century the Second type of socialist realism is evident in the 60-80s While leading his principles (partisanship, bias), defined the «hard» character in the first type, in the 60-80s a few start to weaken, in the artistic consciousness there are elements of philosophical reflection, generalization. This leads to the deepening of the analytical principle in Ossetian Soviet literature, to the expansion of its philosophical, moral and ethical outlook. This process generates serious qualitative changes in the genre system of the Ossetian literature. In particular, a new type of novel — a myth novel-is emerging. In addition, these processes, which determined the quality and character of the socialist realism of the second type as an artistic direction in Ossetian Soviet literature, gave us the opportunity to define this direction as a philosophical and mythological, as well as the novel-myth, which most vividly embodies the evolution of the realistic type of thinking, is structurally formed on mythological subjects and with the participation of mythological heroes.

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