MUSTAY KARIM AND TATAR LITERATURE: LITERARY MASTERY AND MENTORING

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Based on modern literary research, the article throws light upon personal and professional relationships between Mustay Karim and Tatar writers. The main methods of this research are chronological and diachronic analyses. The great Bashkir poet M. Karim had a huge impact on the culture of the peoples of the USSR, including literature. The topics discussed in his works are not limited to national context, but are universal in nature. There are three main features characterizing relationships between Mustay Karim, Tatar writes and creative people. Firstly, Mustay Karim’s poetry was inspired by Tatar folklore and the works of the luminaries of Tatar literature: Gabdullah Tukay, Khadi Taktash, Musa Jalil, and Naki Isanbet, which is clearly demonstrated by his artistic thought process and his artistic view of the world In particular, the figurative meanings, used by Gabdullah Tukay, helped Mustay Karim to express reality in a more artistically accurate manner in his early works, thus obtaining associative images, which increase the musicality of his poems. Secondly, over the years, M. Karim corresponded with his peers Khasan Tufan, Garif Akhunov, Ildar Yuzeev and Tufan Minin, and visited them after they had established close personal and professional relationships. They would visit each other, read each other’s new work, argue, enriching their works with new poetic techniques and images. Thirdly, Mustay Karim became a senior writer and a creative mentor for many Tatar poets of the 1960s, such as Renat Kharis, Ravil Faizullin, Marcel Galiev and Robert Minin. He was a source of the Turkic peoples’ centuries-old wisdom, able to enrich their writing drawing upon his experience. Thus, Tatar literature includes the traditions of the “Mustay Karim School”. Basic concepts: poetry, creativity, individual style, literary criticism, tradition, way of creativity, poetic image, symbol.