Циклизация малых форм балкарской прозы

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This article outlines a range of theoretical issues concerning the development of a promising artis-tic form of the narrative cycle by Balkarian writers. The object of research is small genres of prose (short stories, short stories, satirical miniatures), cyclically structured and forming an artis-tic integrity. The paper examines the historical prerequisites for the emergence of such structures, the regularity of their introduction into the work of regional prose writers. Using the possibilities of literary chronicles, national authors sought to capture the most significant moments of reality succinctly and concisely, to fix them in the reader’s mind through the techniques of detailing, in-cluding additional details, episodes, fragments. The corresponding niche occupied by the novelis-tic cycle in the Balkar literature is determined, the seriation and chronicity of texts, their concep-tual complementarity are noted. The study purposefully correlates a narrative cycle and a thematic collection of short stories, to distinguish such textual associations by distinctive features and ways of coupling parts within the established ideological and artistic integrity. During the analysis the relevant material, various types of prose cycles are revealed: author’s (originally written accord-ing to the writer’s plan), editorial (compiled to the publication of collections of works by an indi-vidual author, based on a single problem) and composite (multi-component texts, within which autonomous works are transformed into a cyclical unity, based on meaningful overlap, repeatabil-ity of plot lines and dominant images). The result of the study is the conclusion that the novelistic cycle has become a very effective form in national prose with its functionality and scope of appli-cation, allowing the most complete reflection of the dynamically changing reality.