INTELLECTUAL TENDENCIES IN FAUZIYA BAYRAMOVA'S PROSE
The problem of our research correlates with one of the areas of literary studies focused on studying modern tendencies of the literary process. The object of this research is the stories "Kүl балыгы" ("Lake Fish") and "Канатсыз акчарлаклар" ("Wingless Gulls") by Fauziya Bayramova, a national writer, who, in the context of Tatar literature, is distinguished by a unique outlook and originality of reflecting the modern world. The article aims to determine the main features, forms and narrative techniques in the researched works that we believe to be an example of intellectual prose. The subject of our research is the features, characterizing changes in the language of Tatar fictional prose in the late 20<sup>th</sup> century. These changes promoted the development of a qualitatively new literary phenomenon, known as an intellectual trend in Tatar prose. To analyze fictional texts we used such methods as hermeneutic, descriptive, comparative-historical and comparative-contrastive. The analysis of the works of this representative of Tatar literature makes it possible to conclude that there exists intellectual prose in the modern national literature, although it is not a full-fledged genre. It should be noted that the features of an intellectual trend are quite appreciable in the texts of the analyzed stories. However, this trend of Tatar literature has not been studied so far. It should also be noted that while analyzing these works we explored the common features of this literary trend and identified the elements inherent in Tatar national literature, which expands opportunities for further comparative-contrastive research.