ON A NEW PERSPECTIVE FOR THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN MODERN KAZAN TATAR LITERATURE (In the example of a long story by Mirgazıyan Yunus, titled Şemdellerde Gěne Utlar Yana (Fires Burn only in Candelabra)

Abstract

From the second half of the twentieth century, especially from the sixties, the thematic area of Tatar literature has expanded as a result of the social and spiritual changes that took place in the Tatar society. A more critical and philosophical view of the past has been strengthened, and events and landscapes have been dealt with in various ways and methods. As the years progress, one of the unforgettable, ever increasingly reevaluated bloody events of the past is the Second World War (1941-1945), which took the lives of 20 million people. As in all Soviet literature, Tatar literature in this period also presented various kinds of literary works that invite society to war, create hatred against the enemy, and celebrate and elevate the heroism of Soviet troops and the sacrifices of those who work outside the front. But the recent period writers who have begun to think about national identity and attach importance to human values, evaluate cause-and-effect relations of the war from another perspective. The new approach to the phenomenon of war addressed in the examples of Contemporary Tatar literature, will be summarized in the introduction part of the presentation through observational method. In the main part, the long story of Şemdellerde Gěne Utlar Yana (Fires Burn only in Candelabra) (1979) by Mirgaziyan Yunus will be interpreted, and the concepts of ideology and society, philosophical view on life-war-death triangle, person and nation dramatization, national values and aesthetic categories in the literary work in question will be evaluated. After all; the influence of the story of M. Yunus on other contemporary writers who work on the subject of war will be discussed.

Keywords

• tatar literature
• second world war
• mirgaziyan yunus
• national values.