I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

retrospection, prospection, category, method, narrative, time  

This article is devoted to the problem of the realization of the text-forming categories of retrospection and prospection in the novel “Eliya” (1976) by the Karachay writer Moussa Batchaev. These categories are used by the author in the plot action and for the psychological motivation of the main character. The relevance of the research is due to the fact that in the Karachay literature before the appearance of the novel “Eliya” there was no work with retrospective and prospective violations of time. Batchaev acted as an innovator who created a work in which episodes belong to different time plans alternate – a return to the past, the present current and “running ahead”. Due to the insufficient study of the problem of textual time in the Karachay literature, it seems necessary to reveal the question of the realization of retrospection and prospection in a work of fiction. This problem is considered by the example of M. Batchaev’s novel “Eliya”, which traces the writer’s game with time, a violation of the linear course of the narrative. The following research methods are used in the work: methods of complex analysis, principles of historical and genetic study of literary text, conceptual analysis, generalization. The study revealed one of the properties of time in Batchaev’s novel – reversibility, which is manifested in the narrative in retrospection and prospection. These text categories are implemented in “Eliya” as forms of discounting, allowing readers to focus not so much on the event as on the reason that led to the event. The conclusions drawn in the article can be used and supplemented in the study of retrospection and prospection in the works of writers of Karachay-Cherkessia.

Badakhova, Rita Yakovlevna – Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of Literature and Journalism, Karachay-Cherkess State University, Karachaevsk, Russia, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-8895, badahova.rita@yandex.ru

Chotchaeva, Mariza Khyisaevna – Candidate of Philology, Head of the Department of Literature and Journalism, Karachay-Cherkess State University, Karachaevsk, Russia, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6401-2084, marizachot@mail.ru