Fidarova, Rima Ya. , Kaitova, Irina A.
Kavkaz Forum. 2020. Issue 1.

Abstract:
In his short stories T.A. Guriev sets a definite goal: he seeks to explore the
national characteristics of the social life and public consciousness of the Ossetians
in the 70-80s of the twentieth century. Artistically realizing such a significant goal in
his stories, the writer successfully solves a number of creative tasks. He analyzes the
socially and historically determined specifics of the Ossetian mentality, Ag’daw as
a moral and ethical code of life for the Ossetians, a national character. He develops
peculiar principles of the artistic typification of characters and circumstances at
the same time, which gives him a creative opportunity to realize the goal set in his
works. In general, typifiction in the writer’s stories begins with the process of coding
the most important features of a real person, which, from his point of view, should
be, i.e. ideal – ideal traits - as the moral and ethical basis of an artistic nature. This
principle plays a particularly significant role in the philosophical and aesthetic
concept of T.A. Guriev, since the category of character in his stories expresses an
important substantive aspect of cognitive reflection, the essence of which is in the
transformation of material into ideal, i.e. reality in an artistic image. The writer
puts forward the spiritual principle in the human character as his dominant. In the
stories of T.A. Guriev, a man is presented as part of a common, indissoluble threads
connected with society logic of cause and effect dependence. The writer realizes his
creative tasks through the use of various components of the structure of an artwork,
in particular, the plot, composition, artistic chronotope, image.

Keywords: story, hero, image, plot, character, mentality.

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