The Chechen in Modern Chechen Literature: Prose by Elbrus Minkailov

The purpose of the study is to introduce the Russian-speaking reader to the representative of Chechen literature of the 21st century, prose writer Elbrus Minkailov. The author analyzes Minkailov's translated (from Chechen into Russian) stories (“The Goal”, “These Eyes”, “Terek”, “The Craving for Life”, “August of That Year”, “Before Sunset”, etc.) using historical-literary, comparative and receptive methods, reveals their special style with elements of Aesopian language, intertextual connections with Russian classical literature (the story “Gooseberry” by Chekhov, the story “Hadji Murat” by L. Tolstoy, the poems of Lermontov) and world literature (the fairy tale “The Little Prince” by Saint-Exupéry), ekphrastic elements. The article focuses on the method of narration - the image of the narrator, his worldview position in relation to such existential categories as homeland, home, war. The presented material destroys the stereotypical image of a Chechen, which has existed for a long time in Russian literature, as well as in the mythology of everyday life. The relevance of the article is justified by the absence in the educational and scientific discourse of analytics of modern literature, called “literature of the peoples of the Russian Federation”, Chechen in particular.