AESTHETIC FEATURES OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORLD IMAGE IN THE CHUVASH PROSE

Albina Myshkina¹*, Galina Yakovleva², Tatyana Emelyanova³, Irina Sofronova⁴,
Elena Ignatyeva⁵, Olga Yakovleva^6
1Prof. Dr., I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University, RUSSIA, alb-myshkina@mail.ru
²Prof. Dr., I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University, RUSSIA, yakovlevagalinagr@mail.ru
³Assoc. Prof., I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University, RUSSIA, tanya.emel1981@yandex.ru
⁴Assoc. Prof., I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University, RUSSIA, muxtar2@yandex.ru
⁵Assoc. Prof., I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University, RUSSIA, alenaign70@mail.ru
⁶Ph.D. candidate, I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University, RUSSIA, yak-ol-nik@yandex.ru
*Corresponding Author

Abstract

Philosophical prose and poetry today attract both general cultural and literary interest. Nevertheless, the genesis of philosophical prose remains one of the least developed problems of literary criticism. The purpose of this article is to identify the different branches of artistic and philosophical thinking in the philosophical prose of the late XX - early XXI centuries. To solve it, the article analyzes the works of modern Chuvash writers of different generations: the older (G. Fedorov), middle (B. Chindykov) and younger (N. Ilyina). Research methods are historical and genetic and comparative analysis. Artistic and philosophical prose, being a synthetic form of culture in which the elements of philosophy and art are combined, helps to reveal the decisive, basic issues of human life, seeks to create a holistic view of the world and spirituality. Works of philosophical prose are often built on the primacy of a moral and philosophical thesis, clear to the author, and the narrative is subject to the logic of its disclosure. Proceeding from this, the main character is assigned the role of the bearer of the idea of ​​spiritual rebirth and the spokesman of certain moral, ethical and national principles. Moreover, deepening the character of the hero and expanding the possibilities of knowing a person occurs through the study of the depths of national outlook and life. The moral comprehension of being becomes the value center of philosophical prose and determines its genre-style structure. Philosophical prose recreates the process of thinking in the moral integrity of the thinking person, which cannot be reduced to any purely logical conclusions and results of this thought process. The modern world is under the sign of crisis, not only social and economic, but also a cultural, moreover, a spiritual crisis. In this regard, literature that studies the general through the individual does not bring to the fore the problems and interests of the whole collective, as it was very recently, but the thoughts of an individual person. In such literature, a person already appears as a “small universe, microcosm,” in which the basic truth of man’s knowledge and the basic truth assumed by the very possibility of cognition were originally laid down. Modern Chuvash philosophical prose through a deepening in the thickness of the national character and life broadens the horizons of knowledge of the human essence and the meaning of his life. The prism through which the writer looks at the world is not a fact, not a phenomenon, but the dynamics of social consciousness, recreated in its individual contradictory forms. The narrative in such prose is not a direct embodiment of the author’s artistic thoughts, because such self-expression would be similar to an abstract contemplation of abstract thinking. Philosophical prose is a phenomenon of art, and therefore combines knowledge and action. The author of philosophical prose does not so much form his thoughts about the world as he reveals the general state of reality, exploring the dynamics of social consciousness.

Keywords: Chuvash literature, philosophical prose, writer's worldview, the tragedy of human life, the spiritual and moral world, national identity, human freedom.