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The subject of research in this article is the image of ethnic world in the novelettes of Shamil Akhushkov, who is an Ingush writer, publicist and film critic of the 1920s–1930s. Personal touch of the Sh. Akhushkov’s style is that how he sees the ethnic world — through the lens of the grotesque, deliberate othering, grotesque distortion of reality, hyperbolization, protruding of ignorance, savagery and moral ugliness. World in Akhushkov’s prose is a grotesque world, an absurd world, with its own reality, its own laws of being, its own heroes. It’s the world that almost without exceptions does not relate to the authentic Ingush world. This is precisely why the Sh. Akhushkov’s creative writing in this article is considered to be an experimentation on reality for certain artistic purposes.