The novel “Navoiy”: second passage and the work as a whole

According to the textbook, “Navoiy” was the first large prose work in world literature about the great thinker-poet. Before it, Oybek had written poems, a dastan and scholarly articles about Navoiy. The novel shows the poet’s personality, inner world and attitude to creation and to other creators in many sides. The writer carefully studied Navoiy’s age, its social and political conditions and the people who dealt with him. Each figure’s speech is distinct: poets, soldiers, commanders, officials, peasants and craftsmen each speak in their own way, which makes the novel readable. The textbook names Navoiy’s justice, care for the people, struggle for the mother tongue, modesty and courage as the novel’s main ideas.