THE IMAGE OF KAZAN CITY IN MODERN TATAR PROSE: BETWEEN “REAL” AND “UNREAL” (ON THE EXAMPLE OF WORKS BY R. SABIROV, S. YUZEEV, R. MUKHAMADIEV)

Abstract

One of the pressing issues of modern Tatar literary studies is the interaction of myth and modern literature in theoretical and literary-historical aspects. Mythologism and realism in the works of Tatar authors of the XX–XXI century are presented in various combinations. This makes it possible to reveal deep national and cultural foundations in the life of a modern person, as well as to convey a sense of the multilayered nature of life and human thinking, the fragility and deceptiveness of “flat” everyday pictures of reality. The current topic is solved in the article on the material of samples of small prose by Rustem Sabirov (“The Thirteenth Window”), Salavat Yuzeev (“Kazan Fairy Tales”), Rinat Mukhamadiev (“His People”), which are united by the image of Kazan and experiments in the field of creating an artistic space.