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The Issue of Genre in Mir Jalal's Work

ABSTRACT

Mir Jalal came to literature in the 1930s, at a time when the artistic word had a strong influence on public life. Since literary genres that rapidly penetrated public life, especially poetry, essays and stories, were increasingly used in such a period, Mir Jalal's first appearance in the press was precisely in this direction. The writer himself wrote about this: "Once I came across Mayakovsky's poem "Zarbachi Marshi", I read it and for some reason I had the idea to translate it. A week later, my translated poem "Zarbachi Marshi" was published. This was my first article in the central press." Starting from this publication, he was engaged in artistic and scientific creativity in parallel until the end of his life. Academician Nargiz Pashayeva, who is deeply familiar with the writer's creative psychology, writes: "In his nearly fifty years of artistic creativity, Mir Jalal has always had a sincere and objective conversation with his readers: he has managed to bring to life the material of life, far from all kinds of "cosmetic literature", with all its truths, with its beauty and tragedies, with its funny and tearful sides." It should be noted that Mir Jalal's five-volume works, consisting of feuilletons, poems, essays, translations, memoirs and stories, published in 2013, create a rich idea of ​​the ideological and artistic scope of his creativity. Lyrical narration and subtle humor, light romance, irony and good-natured laughter are artistic means that complement each other in Mir Jalal's stories.

KEYWORDS

literary genres, artistic creativity, Mir Jalal, literary psychology