The Issue of Genre in Mir Jalal's Work
Shakir JafarovDOI: https://doi.org/10.48445/l0213-3638-4682-h
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2454-9794
Date: 30 May 2025
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