ARTISTIC ORIGINALITY AND RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL MOTIVES IN B. MAGOMEDOV’S DRAMATIC POEM “THE TORMENTS OF PARADISE”

Abstract

A dramatic poem “The Torments of Paradise” by Badrutdin Magomedov, a talented Kumyk poet of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, is analyzed. The article examines features of the artistic space of B. Magomedov’s work: on the functional originality of mythological “inclusions”, the religious environment (Christianity, Judaism, Islam). Attention is focused on the reaction of critics to the poem. When studying the artistic originality of a dramatic poem, the authors conduct a philological analysis of the artistic and expressive means of language, determine religious and ethical motives and the specifics of their ideological and artistic reflection in the figurative system of the poem. The peculiarities of B. Magomedov’s artistic thinking are also revealed; his appeal to the eternal religious concepts of “life” and “death” is noted. The analysis of the features of the language of the poem “The Torments of Paradise” allows to better understand and realize the specifics of B. Magomedov’s religious and philosophical discourse. Conclusions are drawn about the poet’s attitude to death, the impermanence of being, the realities of modern life. It is argued that the main motive highlighted by the author in the poem is envy. The rest of the vices literally grow out of “envy”. The presented philological analysis allows to conclude that B. Magomedov’s work reflects the “eternal” issues that are relevant to humanity at the present stage.