Abstract
The article comprehensively examines the poetic features of contemporary Kazakh prose, its main development trends, and artistic directions. The study focuses on prose works of the independence period, analyzing their narrative structure, narrative strategies, and artistic system. It is demonstrated that while traditional realist models of narration are preserved, they are enriched with elements of modernist and postmodern poetics (intertextuality, fragmentation, irony), which leads to the structural complexity and multilayered nature of literary texts. In addition, such features as fragmented narration, the conditional representation of time and space, polyphonic structure, and the active use of internal monologue and indirect discourse are identified as key poetic characteristics of contemporary Kazakh prose. The article also analyzes the reinterpretation of mythopoetic structures, the functions of archetypal images, and manifestations of intertextual connections, determining their role in the renewal of national literature. Based on the analysis of selected works, the study reveals the artistic searches of contemporary Kazakh prose, the specifics of authorial narrative systems, and the role of narrative techniques in representing characters. Furthermore, the place of genre transformations and artistic experimentation within the modern literary process is defined. The research concludes that the poetics of contemporary Kazakh prose develops at the intersection of tradition and innovation, demonstrating a qualitatively new stage in the development of national literature.