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The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years
" . . . a rewarding book." —Times Literary Supplement Set in the vast windswept Central Asian steppes and the infinite reaches of galactic space, this powerful novel offers a vivid view of the culture and values of the Soviet Union's Central Asian peoples.
The White Ship
"The White Ship is the story of an intelligent, imaginative Kyrgyz boy left by his separated parents in the care of his principled grandfathter. Unfortunately the small community in which they live is dominated by a selfish, manipulative uncle. A recurrent fantasy of the boy is that he will join his father on a white ship which he can occasionally see on the distant Lake Ysyk-kol."--Back cover.
The Post-Soviet Condition
The Post-Soviet Condition: Chingiz Aitmatov In The 90S , Examines The Works Of One Of The Foremost Writers Of Not Only Kyrgyzstan, But Of The Former Soviet Union. Chingiz Aitmatov S Stories, Novellas And Novels Were Conceived Within The Canon Of Socialist Realism But Also Proved The Author To Be A Critical Insider . Chingiz Aitmatov Bore Witness To The Periods Of The Second World War, Stalinism, The Thaw, Stagnation, Perestroika And Post-Socialism. His Works Since The 50S Reflected Kyrgyz Life And The Life Of Other Nationalities In The Broader Framework Of The Soviet Union. While Aitmatov S Works In The Soviet Period Were Greeted As Important Cultural Events And Widely Discussed, His Works Of The 90S Have Not Received Much Attention At Home Or Abroad. This Book Critically Analyses Aitmatov S Works Of The 90S, The Ways In Which He Articulates New Positions Or Relocates Old Ones, The Issues Of Post-Soviet Life That He Focuses Upon And The New Realism He Adopts After The Demise Of Socialist Realism.
Parables from the Past
James Mozur traces the development of Chingiz Aitmatov's fiction from the early 1950s through the mid-1970s, including Farewell, Gul'sary!, The White Ship, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, and The Place of the Skull. He discusses each major work against the political and cultural background in which it was created and thereby widens our understanding of post-Stalinist Soviet literature.Chingiz Aitmatov was born in Kirghizstan in 1928 and published his first stories in the 1950s in both Russian and Kirghiz. He soon took his place as spokesman for the progressive wing of official Soviet Russian literature, striving for greater openness in Soviet letters and for a new approach toward diverse nationalities. Unlike many other writers, Aitmatov continued to flourish in the cultural tumult following the collapse of the communist state, being appointed to government posts by Gorbachev and becoming Soviet ambassador to Luxembourg in 1991.
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Cengiz Aytmatov'un dünyası
Authors, Kyrgyz; criticism and interpretation; 20th century.
Place of the Skull
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The Myth of the Non-Russian
Erika Haber's analysis of the interplay between literature and culture in the Soviet Union of the 1970s and 1980s breaks new ground not only in our understanding of this relationship, but also in our appreciation of the literary genre popularized at that time by the Colombian writer Gabriel Garc a M rquez--magical realism. The Soviets perceived Garc a M rquez as a Socialist, and they sanctioned his magical realism--when other writing styles were outlawed--as a natural extension of socialist realism. Haber discusses the use of magical realism in Soviet literature, focusing especially on two non-Slavic writers: Fasil Iskander, of Abkhazia, and Chingiz Aitmatov, of Kyrgyzstan. She explores how these writers used literary tools of subversion and successfully employed magical realism in rebellion against the prescription of national conformity in art. In critical readings of Iskander and Aitmatov, Haber demonstrates how these writers juxtaposed their native myth with Soviet myth, thus undermining the primary message of socialist realism by suggesting a plurality of worlds and truths.
