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Parables from the Past
The Prose Fiction of Chingiz Aitmatov
Joseph P. Mozur,Joseph P. Mozur Jr.
- 230 pages
- English
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Parables from the Past
The Prose Fiction of Chingiz Aitmatov
Joseph P. Mozur,Joseph P. Mozur Jr.
About This Book
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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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Introduction
- 1. Aitmatov and Kirghizstan
- 2. First Steps
- 3. Farewell, Gul'sary! Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past
- 4. The White Ship: Outcry in a Soulless World
- 5. Aitmatov in the 1970's: Confronting and Transcending Soviet Reality
- 6. The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years: Defining Soviet Mankurtization
- 7. Soviet Society at the Corssroads: "New Thinking" and The Place of the Skull
- Conclusion
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index