IDEOLOGICAL, THEMATIC AND ARTISTIC ORIGINALITY OF MODERN KAZAKH PROSE

Abstract

The article examines the thematic and artistic world of modern Kazakh prose based on the work of such writers as T. Shapai, K. Tyumenbai, A. Altay. The purpose of the article is to draw attention to the fact that in the prose works written over the past twenty years, the writers did not limit themselves to a masterful display of recent events on a national scale, but also paid tribute to current trends in world literature. One of the «closed» themes revived during the years of independence is an artistic recreation of the December events that took place in Almaty in 1986. For the first time in modern Kazakh prose, K. Tumenbai wrote his story «Kobyzdyn muny» («The Grief of Kobyz») on this topic, then Askar Altai continued the baton in his story «Kaladagy kutpandar» («City Dogs»). The author, using unique images and features of the artistic method, gives his vision of the period of the December revolt. The story of the writer A. Altai «Kaladagi kutpandar» («City Dogs») is considered by the authors of the article through the literary prism of intertextual analysis with the definition of such an element of the artistic system as reminiscence. The researchers, based on the analysis of the literary text, identify the presence of historical, social, biographical reminiscences and argue their conclusions with examples. The authors of the article establish that the historical and social reminiscences presented in the work in the form of references to specific historical facts that took place in Kazakh society at the end of the twentieth century enhance the artistry of the work and create historical and social prerequisites for the narrative, and biographical reminiscences are fundamental in the work and are associated primarily with specific events that took place in the author's life.

Hermeneutical, intertextual methods of literary text analysis were used in the course of the study.

The article can be used as an additional educational material in preparation for lectures and seminars on the discipline «Modern Kazakh literature» in higher educational institutions.