Russian Linguistic Bulletin (Jun 2020)
THE WRITER WHO CREATED THE PORTRAIT OF HIS ERA (BASED ON THE WORKS OF KAZAT AKMATOV)
Abstract
Introduction. Kazat Akmatov is one of the writers of that generation, whose works reflected the time of the loss of illusions and the restructuring of the consciousness of citizens of the period of “developed socialism” and in the literary life of the country his work should be called avant-garde in nature. The purpose of the article – to consider the development of contemporary persecution of democratic national prose using the example of the work of Kazat Akmatov, who was persecuted in the Soviet period for political views expressed in his works. Research materials. The material for the study was both the writer's works written in the Soviet period and his works published during the independence period, starting with the novel “Two lines of life”, published in the Ala-Too magazine in 1972 and then called the “literary revelation of the year” , noted by the Soviet Prize for young writers named after Nikolai Ostrovsky, then the novel “Time terrestrial”, which became a serious success of modern Kyrgyz prose, the play “At night of divorce”, the novel “The years around the sun”, the story “Munabia” and its trilogy “Arhat” . Results and novelty of the research. For the first time in English, the article considers the biography of Kazat Akmatov, his civic and creative essence. K. Akmatov's works represent a serious success of modern Kyrgyz prose, introducing a fundamentally new trend in the development of modern Kyrgyz literature. The scientific novelty and significance of the article is determined by the study of Akmatov’s creativity in the aspect of his innovation and political views, consideration of the writer's aesthetic and philosophical thoughts about the world and human nature.
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