The concept of national character in the novel "Saber for the Emir" by Alim Keshokov
This paper focuses on the problem of national character and its conceptual decision in the historical novel by the Kabardian writer A. Keshokov. The purpose of this research is to analyze an image of the main character connected with author’s search of a national ideal and represented in the system of cultural wealth «Adyghe Khabze». The scientific and practical importance and relevance of work are defined by a new research aspect, based on consideration of a problem in the light of dialectic interaction of concepts of the national and universal. Use of historical, literary, textual and culturological methods of research allowed the author to come to a conclusion that A. Keshokov, on the one hand, avoids pseudo-monumentalism of character of the hero and folklore and epic idealization of his personality and develops the realistic concept of national character and, on the other, portrays the person through the movements of soul and represents his spiritual searches in the complicated space of consciousness. The new quality of historicism of A. Keshokov in portraying the image of the hero allows us to open the dialectics of the national and universal in him and to show his drama way to the truth and search of the place in a whirlpool of historical changes.