The article is devoted to the consideration of the existence of death in the novel by the modern Tatar Russian-speaking writer Albina Nuri (Albina Nurislamova)
“The Fifth Sleepless”, on the one hand, manifested at the level of macropoetics of the work (complicated compositional structure), and at the level of micropoetics (a complex of mortal motifs, ideas about death, internal-external dichotomy, vocabulary that actualizes thanatological code). The problem of death, which many Tatar writers addressed, both at the turn of the 19th—20th centuries and at the turn of the 20th—21st centuries, is interpreted by Albina Nuri in the aspect of aesthetics and poetics of magical realism, in which, by combining the magical, wonderful world of infernal creatures, spirits, ghosts and extremely clear, rational reality, a third, difficult to comprehend reality is created. An attempt is made to introduce into scientific circulation the work of the writer, who continues the development of a certain vector (existential orientation and tonality of the work) of both Tatar literature and world literature, mainly Latin American. Conclusions are drawn that death in the novel is the main compositional and artistic constant, which makes it possible to consider the refraction of the traditions of magical realism in this work.
For citation:
Syryseva D.Yu. The existence of death in Albina Nuri's novel “The Fifth Sleepless”, Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2023,
iss. 3, pp. 45—53.