DIARIES OF M.-S. YAKHYAEV: A BIOGRAPHY IN THE CONTEXT OF TIME

Abstract

This study is devoted to the work of the Dagestan prose writer, people's writer of Dagestan, playwright Magomed-Sultan Yakhyaev (1922-2006). The purpose of the article is to introduce into scientific circulation information about the diaries of the writer who kept them for more than half a century and to analyze the specifics of the diary genre in the work of the classic of Dagestan Soviet literature, to characterize his attitude to the events of the post-Soviet period, worldview evolution. Since M-S. Yakhyaev devoted his work mainly to the genre of the historical novel, his approaches to assessing the modern era are of interest both from the point of view of studying the work of the author himself, and from the point of view of reflecting the views of the older generation of Russian society on the era of Boris Yeltsin's rule. The diaries have not been published anywhere, their existence was not known until now, they were found on the author's heirs. The material is of interest to biographers and literary scholars dealing with the problems of Dagestan literature. The biographical and historical-literary value of the new genre in the writer's work is substantiated, which makes it possible to see the refraction of the modern history of Russia in the work and worldview of the classic writer of Dagestan literature of the Soviet period; the genre specificity of diaries is revealed M.-S. Yakhyaev.