Review of the popular science collection “Аяз Гыйләҗев” (comp. Khabutdinova M. M. Kazan: Jyen, 2023. 672 b)

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to review the popular seienee eollection called “Аяз Гыйлэжев” (“Ayaz Gilyazov”) (comp, by M. M. Khabutdinova Kazan: Jyen, 2023. 672 p.). The collection includes memoirs about Ayaz Gilyazov (1928-2002), the People’s Writer of the Republic of Tatarstan, winner of the State Prize named after G. Tukay, as well as the author’s autobiographical works, critical and journalistic articles, interviews, photographs and documents from the writer’s personal archive. The diaries and documents stored in the personal archive of the writer and publicist Ayaz Gilyazov, a classic of Tatar literature, a prominent representative of Tatar prose of the second half of the 20* century, have been collected and presented to the scientific community by Candidate of Philology Milyeusha Khabutdinova, a literary scholar who compiled a collection of reviews, which are of great significance in the studies devoted to the development of social consciousness in the 20* century. The publication is based on the principles of chronological and genre diversity. The material is subsumed into eight sections. The last section, entitled “Татар кодексы” (“The Tatar Codex”), has a quote from Rafael Sibat’s review of Ayaz Gilyazov’s work “Иэгез, бер дога!” (“Let’s Pray!”). The writer’s contribution to the national literary art and methods of research along with the methods for analyzing and the scientific principles of evaluation of his works are highlighted in the preface to Milyeusha Khabutdinova’s collection and in her articles about the writer’s letters and diaries, as well as in the memoirs of M. Sh. Shaimiev, the First President of the Republic of Tatarstan and State Adviser, the scholar I. Andreeva, the writers G. Akhunov, R. Zaidulla, Sh. Rakipov, R. Valiyev, A. Litvin, M. Galiev, T. Galiullin and R. Mukhamadeev