Әзербайжан әдебиеттанушысы Әуезов жайында

Abstract

The monograph of the Azerbaijani literary critic and Turkologist Nizami Mammadov-Tagisoy «Mukhtar Auezov: from tradition to innovation» is devoted to the problems of studying the work of the great Kazakh writer M. Auezov. This work is the result of rigorous analysis and active rethinking of the texts of the classic works of the unsurpassed master of the pen in the context of historical, moral and aesthetic concepts of our time. As a connoisseur of Kazakh literature and folklore, a translator of Auezov’s story «Beauty in Mourning» into Azerbaijani and as the author of a number of articles about M. Auezov, 145А. Шәріп Turkic Studies Journal 3 (2022) 141-146N. Mammadov-Tagisoy the author refers in his research to scientific publications not only from the Soviet but also from the post-Soviet period, and also relies on archival material and official documents.If in the first chapter of the monograph the scholar describes the conditions and factors for the formation of M. Auezov’s creative personality considers the ideological, thematic and artistic originality of his early stories (“The fate of the defenseless”, “Orphan”, “Marriage”, “In the shadow of the past”, “Grey Fierce”, etc.), then in the second chapter he analyzes the ways of reflecting the events of the Karkara (Albanian) uprising of 1916 in the masterpiece novel “The Hard Time”, which was on the list of banned literature and was only republished in Russian and translation in 1972. The dramatic works of M. Auezov are the object of the third chapter of the research book, in which the focus is on the analysis and reassessment of the historical tragedies «Night Peals», «Khan Kene», «Beket». A comparative analysis of poetic features (author’s idea, type of conflict, compositional structure, imagery system, etc.) of the plays «Abai», written in collaboration with L. Sobolev, and «Vagif» by the Azerbaijani poet-dramatist S. Vurgun was carried out.It is that N. Mamedov-Tagisoy’s monograph will give new impetus to the research and popularization of the creative heritage of M. Auezov – the author of the famous epic novel «The Way of Abai» – in the context of the development of historical and artistic thought in the Turkic world