THE PROBLEM OF PORTRAYING A NEW TYPE OF NATIONAL CHARACTER IN ZH. AYMAUYTOV'S NOVEL “KARTKOZHA”

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the depiction of a new type of national identity in Zh. Aymauytov's novel "Kartkozha". The methodological basis of the research conducted was given by the scientific works of Kazakh literary critics S. Kirabaev and R. Nurgali, in which they carried out versatile studies of the problems on the typology of Zh. Aymauytov's novels. In solving the tasks, the methods of historical and functional theory are used. It is argued that Kartkozha acts as a perfect embodiment of the national character that convincingly reflects through behaviour and thoughts the most significant trends in social development in the October Revolution period. We show how the author of the novel tries to combine the humanistic traditions of the education novel in world literature with the class criterion for evaluating the activities of an individual. The new national type offered by Zh. Aymauytov is inseparable from the socio-economic conditions, but the main sources (drivers) of its formation and development still go back to such notions as the ethno-historical memory, the constructive genotypic potential of morality that is actualized by a person in a national space.