Конфликт личности и общества в карачаево-балкарской драматургии начала 80-х гг. XX в. (на примере драмы Б. Д. Аппаева «Решение села»)

Goals. The drama ‘Elni Onuu’ (‘The Village’s Decision’) by Karachay playwright Bilyal Appaev shall serve a means to examine a specific type of artistic conflict — that between individuality and society — in Karachay-Balkar playwriting of the early 1980s. The study aims to illustrate the conceptual and poetic potentials for resolving this type of conflict characterized by high emotional intensity and novelty for the ethnic drama tradition, and to define the narrative’s genre. The paper highlights three major themes of the 1970s and early 1980s — the ‘industrial’, ‘collective-farm’, and ‘estate’ (or ‘village’) ones, and employs two methods of drama construction — the traditional (‘Hegelian’) and non-traditional (‘Ibsenian’) ones. This eclecticism gives rise to a drama conflict manifested in both overt and covert forms. Materials and methods. The study focuses on the drama ‘Elni Onuu’ (‘The Village’s Decision’) by B. D. Appaev. Methodologically, the study rests on literary analysis of drama text, as well as on comparative typological and genre thematic approaches that make it possible to examine the play within the contexts of Russian Soviet drama, Western European tradition (H. Ibsen), and the theory of dramatic conflict (K. Shazzo, V. Volkenstein, P. Rudnev). Results. It has been established that, despite the author’s designation of the play as a ‘tragedy’, its events, central idea, and core conflict align more closely with the genre of drama; it is demonstrated that the ‘industrial’, ‘collective-farm’, and ‘estate’ themes not merely coexist but interlock within the narrative to yield a complex drama structure.