«From the darkness of ages»: the evolutionary status of the epic

The article “From the Darkness of Ages”: the evolutionary status of the epic” is an attempt at a comprehensive analysis of I. Bazorkin’s novel from the point of view of its ethnic authenticity and belonging to newly written literature. The work’s relevance - the writing of the Ingush prose writer has not been sufficiently studied to this day, and the fact of his obvious exclusivity in terms of professional development in comparison to the general context of “accelerated” literature has only been mentioned in the relevant works. The authors persuasively analyze specific aspects of the writer’s narrative style, demonstrating that I. Bazorkin exhibits traditional literary system features in the components of idiostyle – apperceptivee, constructive-plot, genre, ideological, and conceptual. The study notes and demonstrates I. Bazorkin’s attraction to storytelling with alternating “focality” (“cognitive transfer”). Interesting observations regarding the mutual aesthetic integration of folklore and ethnographic elements of the work. The ideological mobility and freedom of the writer in the sphere of moral and ethical standards of perception and evaluation are noted. All of these innovative characteristics of newly written language are explained by the writer’s education, the details of his creation in infancy, which, of course, has it causes. I. Bazorkin’s novel has all the features of newly written prose and in this sense clearly fits into the context of the national literature of the Ingush people, however, the text of the work, both in narrative terms and in architectonics, is a phenomenon more characteristic of developed literary systems with long tradition.

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