ABDULLA QADIRI'S SKILL OF DESCRIBING THE NATIONAL SPIRIT

Abstract

The scientific conception of the article is founded on the literary interpretation of the original essence of literature through national spirit and national literary-aesthetic thought as a core dimension in assessing a certain writer’s work. It is put on the agenda that it is necessary to analyze theoretically and scientifically the best selected samples of each nation’s literature in the world from the point of view of national spirit regardless of what language the work was created by. In Uzbek literature of the XX century the work “Bygone Days” by Abdulla Qodiri was analyzed as a novel to meet this dimension. According to the author’s opinion the national spirit in the work “Bygone Days” displays itself on the bases of the following three principles: 1) interpretation of specific customs, traditions, values, nation’s dreams and expectations endowing the national spirit; 2) expression of the competence to assess critically the nation itself; 3) poetic embodiment of courageous faith peculiar to national personalities in the work. In its turn, out of these principles, the first one presents nation’s morality, the second - its will, the third – its faith, and these three angles make the national spirit as a whole unit. It was discovered that the expression of the national spirit and literary skill were harmonized uttermost. At the end of the article the research results were theoretically generalized