The poetics of historical novels of B. Rafikov
There is the urgent need to analyze and comprehend the literary process of the twentieth century, which has completely ended and has irrefutably turned into evidence. The relevance of the research is determined by the special qualitative rise of the novel genre in Bashkir literature. The need to study the poetics of the Bashkir novel, the analysis of its artistic and aesthetic, spiritual and moral, patriotic and other values is caused by modern reality. In the process of development of the national literatures of the Russian Federation, there is the theoretical interestin the study of the poetics and evolution of Bashkir prose from the point of typology. The relevance of this workis the study of the historical ways of development of Bashkir literature related to Turkic literatures, in particular prose, in the aesthetic aspect, focusing not only on Russian-European traditions, but also including Eastern ones, the synthesis of folklore poetics, national specifics, genetic roots. The relevance of scientific work is primarily due to the identification of pressing problems, the positioning of ideas, principles, points of view, beliefs, etc., which constitute an inseparable literary process. The historical novel of the last two decades reveals much in common with works on a modern theme in stylistic trends of development, principles, techniques and means of character typification. At the same time, the analysis of the multifaceted artistic world of the historical novel is a fact that contributes to the reconstruction of the picture of modern literature in its unity. The author, adhering to the purpose and objectives of the study, gives an idea about the degree of study of the identified issues, formulates and considers in detail the necessary directions of research work. The purpose of this article is to study the problems of poetics of historical novels by Bulat Rafikov, which will lead to the creation of a more complete picture of modern Bashkir prose in line with the identification of its main stylistic trends. In accordance with this goal, it is natural to solve the following specific tasks: the study of the nature (epic, rhetorical, artistic, semantic, etc.) of the historical novel and the analysis of the creative skill of the artist. The author uses the method of bibliographic, biographical, motivic, plot analysis; comparative typological and comparative historical literary criticism. The result of the work is, first of all, a comprehensive study and a comprehensive analysis of the historical novel conducted for the first time on the principle of forming the poetics of the Bashkir novel. A completely different approach is outlined in the study of the poetics of the modern Bashkir novel and new directions, prospects for the development of the genre and national literature of the XXI century are revealed.