RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism (Dec 2015)
CHINGIZ AITMATOV AND RUSSIAN LITERATURE OF THE XX CENTURY
Abstract
The article reveals the poetics of Chingiz Aitmatov. At the multinational field of soviet literature Aitmatov’s books became a property of the whole literature, not only Kirgiz literature. At the literary process of the 6 0 -80-th Aitmatov’s works reveal features which organically belong to many other writers of this epoch - in poetics, composition, mythology, architectonics and style. Aitmatov’s novels reveal intertextual ties with masterpieces of Evgenyi Zamyatin, Michail Bulgakov, Boris Pasternak, Valentin Rasputin, Victor Astafiev, Vasiliy Belov, Yuriy Trifonov.The evolution of Aitmatov represents a movement to large scale incarnation of humanistic idea of a Personality and World. Early novels contain a sense of love as bright and strong feeling. The later works show a concern for the Present and the Future of mankind, which becomes the matter of a person’s responsibility.
