REALISM AND ARTISTIC CONVENTION IN BALKARIAN EPIC PROSE
The subject of the analysis presented in the paper are the most typical ways of implementing the conventions of the art in the works of writers Balkarian, and the ratio of realistic fi ction and authentic details in the context of national prose. The paper emphasizes the role of plot-art conditional form (metaphors, allegories, symbols and myth) in the refl ection of the ideological content of literary works.