Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne (Oct 2018)

Проблема «кентавризма» кочевников и земледельцев в аспекте психоаналитического литературоведения (на материале романа А. Кима Поселок кентавров)

  • Людмила Сафронова,
  • Эльмира Жанысбекова

DOI
https://doi.org/10.34858/polilog.8.2018.012
Journal volume & issue
no. 8
pp. 143 – 156

Abstract

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The problem of “centaurism” of the kochevians and farmers in the aspect of psychoanalytical literature (on the material of the novel A. Kim The Village of Centaurs) In the neo-mythological novel-grotesque The Village of Centaurs, the author tries to recreate the course of world and Asian history, the etymology of the birth and death of “centauric” civilizations that unite nomadic and agricultural peoples, the evolution of mankind as a whole. At the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries especially the problem of the relationship between East and West, which, according to A. Kim’s thoughts, have gravitated towards confrontation since ancient times. A. Kim also spoke about the implicit war that had already begun between these two regions at an international conference in KazNU name after Al-Farabi in April 2017. Under such circumstances, universal personalities, like the most famous Kazakh of Korea, a world-famous writer Anatoly Kim, born in the land of Kazakhstan, brought up in Russian culture, and who in recent years has turned completely to his national Roots. Korean culture in general is most suited to the role of mediator between the eastern and western peoples, as in its history closely intertwined shamanism, Buddhist and Christian mythology, Confucianism. A Korean with Kazakh roots A. Kim is experimenting all the time trying to unite the West and East, heaven and earth, nomads and farmers: “On the father (heaven, top), the west and the east are the same, only in the womb of the mothers (bottom, land) are different”. But his experiments are not crowned with success, thereby manifesting the imperfect course of history and an endless return to the beginning, the myth of the first creation.

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