THE IMAGE OF ABUTALIB IN RASUL GAMZATOV’S BOOK “MY DAGESTAN”

Abstract

In the article, the authors reveal the image of Abutalib from Rasul Gamzatov’s book “My Dagestan”. Abutalib is a colorful personality, both in life and in the book. He embodies the image of a mountain worker, simple and original, faithful to the mountain way of life, despite its vicissitudes. He is endowed with a natural mind, great talent, who grew up on the principles and traditions of folk culture. Abutalib has an ironic attitude to everything that is happening around him, humor and a joke are splashing out of his mouth. For all occasions, he has aphorisms full of originality and deep meaning, he creates them easily and playfully. The authors of the article emphasize that Rasul Gamzatov is an artist, a poet, called by virtue of his divine gift to glorify his country, his people, express and represent them at home and abroad. He is a national poet – he must be his herald. The same functions in the life and in the book are performed by two other folk poets – Gamzat Tsadasa and Abutalib Gafurov – real people, well-known to Dagestanis, who are singers of the country of mountains. The article forms an image written from nature. There is a prototype, and the reason that he is little known as a poet is that he was not published as often as other writers, collections were published in Lak, there were almost no translations into Dagestan languages, and little was translated into Russian. In addition, Abutalib was not a person who stuck out his personality, he lived simply, modestly, created: without noise and advertising. Thus, Rasul Gamzatov’s idea remained unfinished, his separate book entitled “Abutalib said” was not published. A book by Abutalib himself was published under this title. And the material under this title is published in the seventh volume of the eight-volume collection of the poet’s works.