Özet:

The discussions on the principles and experiences of creation of the hero concept, which is regarded as one of the significant subjects of all times in the Tatar literature, still continue today. That the subjects of the hero concept are treated in all issues of Kazan Utları (the Kazan Lights), a literary journal published in Kazan, is a clear evidence of it. Such ideas as “positive hero”, “exemplary hero”, “our day’s hero”, “masked hero” and “challenging hero” are often encountered in the literary criticism texts of the recent years. The complicated hero concept and the positive hero in the literature of recent years, which has been influenced by the freedom movement, does not correspond with the demands of the perfect hero concepts in the Soviet literature because of the enrichment of the former in terms of theme and style, progress of psychologism and of prevalence of lyrical and critical works. Nevertheless, some authors, though not in the level of the ideal of life, make efforts to create positive heroes who have a great faculty of decency. This paper will concentrate on the principles of the creation of the positive hero, ideas and experiences of such men of the Tatar literature in recent years as D. Zahidullina, A. Helim, G. Gıylmanov and F. Beyremova. From the old literature to 1980’s literature will be reviewed and examples of the positive hero are given from the literary works of the period. In the Tatar literature in recent years, the characteristics of the positive hero have been ascertained in the works of F. Safin, M. Malikova, A. Helim and F. Yarullin, by means of which the worldview and ideals of the authors are expressed.

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