An example of courage: Rakhim Sattar’s work.

Abstract

The article highlights the life and creative path of Rakhim Sattar, a little-known poet, determines his place in Tatar poetry and reveals the traditions of literary criticism that he laid down. Based on the hermeneutic approach, the article analyzes, for the first time, the poet’s poems written by him in captivity, determines their main motifs and reveals the content of his poetic works in the context of the literature in that period. This determines the novelty and relevance of the article. The main goal of our research is to study Rakhim Sattar’s life and work, to include his works in a wide scientific circulation. The article is based on materials, memories and interviews, related to the biography of the poet and his life in captivity and preserved in the family archive, and the archive of the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan. In the course of our study, we have come to the conclusion that Rakhim Sattar both relied on the traditions of wartime literature and conducted poetic experiments. In addition, we have identified the genre diversity of the poet’s works and their main motifs, determined by the loyalty to his motherland, his longing for the native land when he lived in captivity. His innovations went hand in hand with the conception of the lyrical hero. The study evaluates the images and details, the techniques, used in conveying the main motifs, and the poetic goals of R. Sattar’s works. The proof of loyalty to the native country is the main motif of R. Sattar’s works, written during the period of imprisonment. This motif is closely connected with the images of an oath and faith, the concepts of death and immortality, it is the main means of conveying the relationship between the poet and his native country. The theme of fidelity, the image of an oath is widely embodied in his poems, which represent the chain: native country – nature – native land – mother. In the poems, devoted to the theme of the native land, the opposition of one’s own / alien is in the center, the native land is opposed to a foreign country, and this concept is reproduced through various images. The poems devoted to his life in captivity possess a tragic motif.