I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

Tatar literature, Rabit Batulla, conventionally metaphorical prose, fairy tales, stories.

The article investigates the prose works of Rabit Batulla, who had a significant impact on the spiritual and cultural development of the Tatar people. Organically combining the realistic with mythological motifs, he created the works of a new genre and is one of the founders of the metaphorical creative direction in Tatar literature. The themes and techniques introduced by him in the literature require independent research. The authors of the article, analyzing a lot of fairy tales and stories by R. Batulla, emphasize that the writer took the Tatar literature to a new level in terms of content and form.

Ганиева Айгуль Фирдинатовна – кандидат филологических наук, старший научный сотрудник Института языка, литературы и искусства им. Г. Ибрагимова Академии наук Республики Татарстан, г. Казань, Россия; e-mail: aygulgani@mail.ru

Надыршина Лейсан Радифовна – кандидат филологических наук, старший научный сотрудник Института языка, литературы и искусства им. Г. Ибрагимова Академии наук Республики Татарстан, г. Казань, Россия; e-mail: leysan_tatar@mail.ru