Humanities & Social Sciences 5 (2016 9) 1191-1197 ~ ~ ~ УДК 882-3 The Prose about the Chechen War by V. Makanin Tatyana N. Markova* Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University 69 Lenin Str., Chelyabinsk, 454080, Russia Received 24.02.2016, received in revised form 27.03.2016, accepted 15.04.2016 This article considers the urgent problem of literary genre analysis of the modern prose. <...> Under the conditions of overall distrust to an open word, archaic models and plot structures provide a modern writer with an opportunity to speak about the most important matters, avoiding pathos, rhetoric and didactics. <...> The articles studies the works by V. Makanin about the Chechen war based on intuition and movement of free thought of the writer developing in parable forms. <...> Modern parable is a reaction to the word closed in the literary fi eld, on literocentricity; it displays artistic expression in a broader context returning ethical and didactic components to the word. <...> The use of parables leads to almost unlimited opportunities of multi-level reading, it activates the living, intellectual and spiritual experience of the reader to the utmost. <...> If in the early 1980s, critics saw his main advantage in the analysis of social reality (A. Bocharov, V. Bondarenko, N. Ivanova), the articles of the 1990s focus on other areas – existential orientation of his work (L. Anninskii, A. Genis, A. Latynina, M. Lipovetskii, A. Nemzer, I. Rodnianskaia). <...> According to philologists (T. Klimova, S. Perevalova, T. Churliaeva), Makanin’s prose is different from the known genre models, relying on intuition and the movement of the free thought of the writer unfolding in the forms of metaphorical parables. <...> The Prose about the Chechen War by V. Makanin In this regard, Makanin’s works about the Chechen war, “The Caucasian captive” (1995) and “Asan” (2008) are of particular interest. <...> Let us recall on the article by P. Basinskii “Playing peevers on the blood of another” and a devastating review by V. Toporov “Asan wants blood”. <...> Of course, journalism gives a much more organic understanding of the war in Chechnya, for example “The call sign: Cobra: notes of the special operation troop offi cer” by E. Abdullaev (1997), “My War: Chechen Diary of the Trench General” by G. Troshev (2001), a journalistic investigation by A. Politkovskaia “The Second Chechen war” (2002 <...>