About the prejudicial attitudes towards Samad Vurgun’s some theoretical considerations

Abstract

The prejudicial attitudes by Russian literary critic E.Gorbunova, as well as Azerbaijani
poets such as S.Rustem, R,Rza and M.Rahim towards the articles “Big art issues” and “Poet’s
rights” by Samad Vurgun, prominent representative and influential literary critic of Azerbaijan of
20th century that published during the first half of 1953 in the central press is justified based on
factual materials. At the same time, these authors denied the master poet's creativity, they accused
him of not understanding the essence of national character, receding from a historical approach to
reality that is the basic demand of socialist realism, not taking into account being variable of the
concepts of “nation” and “national character”, suggesting abstract thoughts that are impractical and
can lead to wrong conclusions, and the reasons for these are connected with the environment and
the current political regime. Besides it, it is also stated that the accusations made against the poet
(especially about Samad Vurgun’s thoughts on national character) reflect the truth in some cases. It is noted that his thoughts about this problem did not really respond to the idea “Friendship of the
Peoples” promoted by the regime and goes out of the frame of the method of socialist realism.