Poetics of the novels by L.N.Tolstoy and M.S.Ordubadi

of the novels by L.N.Tolstoy and M.S.Ordubadi (based on comparative typological analysis of the novels “Sword and Pen” and “War and Peace”)

Abstract

For the first time in literary criticism, this article contains a comparative typological analysis of the poetics of L.N.Tolstoy and M.S.Ordubadi. The author revealed the typological and individual peculiarities of the poetics of Russian and Azerbaijani writers, as well as their similarity with each other from the ideological and philosophical point of view of both writers in relation to historical events, the genre of the historical novel, historical images. In the works of each of the two writers, they comprehensively and deeply considered the problems of "man and history", "man and society".
The analysis allows us to conclude that the novels of both writers show historical events and facts, the life, spirit and struggle of the people, and also created its literary image. In both novels, images of historical heroes were created, personifying the most beautiful, noble traits, national characters, and progressive ideals of the people. Along with the positive qualities of those heroes, their doubts and experiences were also reflected.
Describing social and political events in their historical novels, both writers present them in unity with the personal fate of images, family and everyday and love issues. Socio-political and personal life events seem to replace and complement each other. In the development of each of the lines, the proportion is not disturbed and lasts until the very end.
Along with similar features of the historical philosophy of L.N.Tolstoy and M.S.Ordubadi the author also analyzed important differences in the views of both writers who lived in different eras and belonged to different peoples on these issues.

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