ON THE QUESTION OF GENESIS AND DYNAMICS MINIATURE GENRE IN RASUL GAMZATOV’S WORKS

Abstract

The article deals with the genesis and formation of small poetic forms in the work of Rasul Gamzatov – quatrains and octets, which make up his significant layer. Rasul Gamzatov’s miniatures are presented as a rather distinctive and original literary phenomenon, the study of which can explain patterns of development of the small genre in the literary process of Dagestan in the 20th century. A rich and complex path of evolution of the genre of octets in Dagestan poetry is traced, periods of rapid prosperity and relative decline in its development are noted. Revealing the connection of the ideological, thematic, philosophical content of the miniature genre with the historical and literary process, the authors of the article come to the conclusion that its heyday in Dagestan literature falls on periods characterized by the spiritual instability of society, the crisis of value orientations throughout the Russian space at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. In the dynamics of small poetic forms in the works of R. Gamzatov, the authors trace a phenomenon called “stringing” miniatures, when large poetic works are created from quatrains.