Fidarova, Rima Ya.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2020. IIS 37 (76).

Abstract:
By the beginning of the twentieth century Ossetian society was distinguished by a heterogeneous
social composition. Ossetian literature objectively and artistically convincingly sought to reveal and
present a holistic picture of the relationships of various social groups. In the process of developing
realism in Ossetian literature, the philosophical understanding of the society is specified and deepened
through artistic research of various aspects of public life. During this period in literature there is a
shift from socio-economic, basic problems of social life to problems of spiritual structures. As a result,
the fiction concept of society as a holistic structure is formed in literature. Artistic consciousness,
as part of social consciousness, draws material for reflection not only from real life, but also from
history, ethnography, psychology, ethics, etc. In the novel «Brother to Brother,» writer A. Tsalikov
deeply explores the character of his hero, puts him in psychologically tense (extreme) situations, as if
all the time testing his moral and spiritual potential, his «strength» and courage. At the same time,
the writer is careful about the national world itself or what in this case creates the true romantic
situation itself, namely what Hegel called the so expressively «state of the world,» that is, national
reality itself. Novel carries the powerful potential of the original and holistic, national-specific,
philosophical understanding of the original existential problems of the existence of Ossetian society,
since it is the result of the deeply personal spiritual experience of the writer who experienced the fate
of an emigrant exile. This experience, embodied in concrete images and symbols of the artistic picture
of the destroyed national world, is an inexhaustible source for rational interpretations of the era of
revolution and civil war in Ossetia and Russia.

Keywords: realism, novel, hero, character, image, social community, person, society

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