PRINCIPLES OF CHOOSING A HISTORICAL PERIOD, HISTORICAL FIGURES, AND HISTORICAL EVENTS IN THE NOVEL GENRE

This article examines the conceptual principles of sorting and artistic generalization of a historical period, historical figures, and historical events in the novel genre. The work invites analysis of the relationship between documentary authenticity and artistic texture, the dialectical synthesis of historical reality and artistic reality, as well as the epic scope of the writer’s concept. The author’s approach to the phenomenon of a historical figure their heroic spirit, contradictory inner world, spiritual and psychological image, and aesthetic criteria for reflecting a turning point in the fate of a people is scientifically substantiated. The novel also reveals the genre‑compositional and ideological‑aesthetic factors that shape the events, which embody the spirit of the times (the atmosphere) and represent an important turning point.