Epistolary genre in the work of G. Galbatsov: Author and addressee

The article attempts to consider the originality of the style of the modern Dagestani novelist Gazimagomed Galbatsov on the material of the epistolary genre: in “Letters to the next world” to the classics of Avar literature of the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries and “To himself”, reflecting the creative quest of the author. The structural and comparative research methods, as well as the method of intertextual analysis of the text, make it possible to identify the elements of the author’s pastiche of the literary style of the addressees. The conducted research reveals Galbatsov’s unique ability: he is fluent in various artistic styles and reflects the peculiarities of the individual creative manner of the recipients of his letters: the Arabist and religious thinker Chank and the aciduous satirist Gamzat Tsadasa (Rasul Gamzatov’s father). In the epistolary genre, Galbatov conveys the inner world of the addressees, the peculiarities of their spiritual and religious worldview, the manner of their writing and artistic style through the intonation structure of speech and lexical and syntactic expressive means. Galbatsov’s letters are of considerable literary interest from the point of view of their genre embodiment and stylistics. On the one hand, they act as a means of creating images of the author-addresser and addressee, on the other hand, they are indicative of the stylistic searches of the writer himself. The author of the article also draws attention to the features of the chronotope and its functions in the analyzed letters: the spatial and temporal artistic solution in Galbatsov’s epistolary works reflects the author’s discourse, which contributes to the disclosure of the worldview of the Dagestani prose writer.