Literary criticism of N. N. Pavlov-Tyahyt: directions, problems, genres

The article examines the literary-critical activity of the Yakut writer and literary critic Nikolai Nikolaevich Pavlov – Tyahyt (1904-1974). N. N. Pavlov was a man of a difficult fate; he was twice subjected to repressions, but despite the fact, he did a lot for the development of Yakut literature and criticism. In the republic, he is also known as a talented teacher, journalist, translator, compiler of the Russian-Yakut dictionary and bibliographic index "Yakut fiction: 1904-1948". N. N. Pavlov acted as a critic in a difficult period in the development of literature, namely, under the transition from literary polycentrism of the 1920s to the literary monism of the 1930s-1950s, i.e. the establishment of social realism as the only and dominant aesthetics of the Soviet literature. Insufficient study of N. N. Pavlov as a literary critic determines the academic novelty of the research. The work identifies the main directions, themes, genres of his critical works, determines his attitude to the literary heritage of the founders of Yakut literature A. E. Kulakovskiy, A. I. Sofronov, and N. D. Neustroev, as well as the creative activity of writers in the 1930s-1950s, the contribution to the formation and development of literary criticism of Yakutia is assessed. The article uses previously unpublished works of literary character from the N. N. Pavlov’s personal archive. Such methods of literary research as textual analysis and historicalcomparative analysis are used. The authors come to the conclusion that N. N. Pavlov as a literary critic has his place in the history of Yakut literary criticism.

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