Britaeva, Anzhela B.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2024. IIS 51 (90). P.128-136.

Abstract:
The name and work of the talented Ossetian poet, writer, playwright Vaso Georgievich
Maliev is included in the treasury of Ossetian fiction. In the presented study, based on
the material of the play “Dzarahan”, the genre of which the author himself defined as a
drama-story, problems of moral choice, themes of betrayal, memory, and conscience are
raised. The writer’s focus is on the relationship between the past and the present in the
moral development of the individual. The author of the article focuses special attention
on retrospection, which occurs in the form of memories of the heroes, which the writer
carried out at the level of composition, as well as the image of the heroes. The purpose
of the undertaken research is to reveal the specifics of V. Maliev’s artistic understanding
of the problem of moral choice. The analysis is based on the fundamental methods and
principles of scientific research, including: typological, structural and, to some extent,
biographical, used in their interrelation. The relevance of the study is due to the need for a
scientific understanding of Vaso Maliev’s contribution to the history of Ossetian literature
of the second half of the 20th – early 21st centuries, his role in the development of Ossetian
children’s literature, as well as the need to study and systematize his creative heritage. The
scientific novelty of the work is determined by the fact that the work in question (the play
“Dzarahan”) was introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The results of the
study can be used when writing the history of Ossetian children’s literature, when teaching
the course “Ossetian literature” in university practice.

Keywords: Ossetian children’s literature, drama, story drama, theme of moral choice, theme of memory, retrospection, Vaso Maliev.

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