Abdulina A., Dzhanuzakova Zh.

 

Concept the Path in Kazakh prose of the twentieth century

 

"Concept - the thinking category, unobserved, and it gives a lot of room for its interpretation. Category concept appears today in the study of philosophy, logic, psychology, cultural studies, literature, and it bears the traces of all these interpretations". [1,1] Content and essence of the concept vary depending on differences in mentality, that is attitude, perception of the world of the individual and the community, representing one or another type of culture. At the end of the XX century in the world of Philology issued a new direction - "conceptual- culturological".  It is about a broad view of the word, is studied "at the junction of a number of humanitarian disciplines  – linguistics, literature, logic, philosophy, art studies and culturology." [2,8]  

Among the urgent issues related to the specifics of the national artistic prose, a special place is the theme of morality, spirituality, and its refraction in people's worldviews. In this context, particular importance is the problem of choosing a man of the vital way, which has become the main pressing need from the time awareness of personal independence, that is from ancient times, in the process of evolution is becoming more acute and structuring paradigm of existence. Chosen for the study concept projected onto in the first place, the moral, religious, philosophical, cultural orientation man, because the Path (the Road)) can be represented as a kind of concentric circles in the center of which - "Absolut" of good (God, truth, mind), and the way a person can be sent to this center, or, on the contrary, from it ("the right way" and " false way").  Path problem is studied by many researchers from of various directions in different countries. So, attracted the attention of scientists human relations and Supreme Intelligence (V. Komarov, B. Carter), classical Christian foundations (A. Men, B. Berman), awareness of the man himself in a world language (G. Fauconnier, G. Dinsmore, J. Lakoff), communication with the myth of man's ways, while is approved cyclicity of human civilization and aspiration of the person to return harmony through a return to the mythological consciousness (A. Losev, M. Eliade, J. Golosovker and others). Thus, the path (road) an expression of appears as difficult problem of choosing between the "law of good" and "evil force" and the characters, choosing the path, and elect their fate. Special importance attaches to the characters who have an understanding of "life with the aim of" caring about how to end their path separating the important thing in a person's life from the transient and time, reveal something to aspire to, and that may be false. Thus, the path (road) an expression of appears as difficult problem of choosing between the "law of good" and "evil force" and the characters, choosing the path, and shall elect their fate. Special importance attaches to the characters who have an understanding of "life with the aim of " caring about how to end their path separating the important thing in a person's life from the transitory and temporary, reveal something to aspire to, and that may be false.

Kazakh literature of the twentieth century is a rather complicated in its diversity picture. In this work elected to investigated  prose of Satimzhan Sanbaev, a famous writer of modern literature of Kazakhstan. The book "White Aruana" includes the writer's works by the early years of his creation in the series "nomadic tales". Written in the 60-70 years of the twentieth century, they were warmly welcomed by readers and become a real event in the spiritual life of Kazakhstan, displaying romance, aesthetics and ethics pasturing routs. "According to him, in these works, we can recognize what we have lived. And the movement of spiritual thought, and the time when the law on the everlasting life of the steppe "ancestors are ahead of children." These children have grown up, have passed the way from perception of the world to the worldview, closer to the mystery of life, which I had to tell those who comes after, "- writes in the foreword to a collection of short stories writer Duysenbek Nakipov. [4, 7]

Defining the artistic philosophy of the writer idea of "life-freedom-movement-revival" generates a specific way of creative thinking, inherently philosophical supposing the installation of the original image of the person associated with the surrounding world with the historical past, with the fate of people whose life –  nomad camp – wandering the paths and roads of the motherland. All the works of the book "White Aruana" begin with picture of the motion or descriptions of roads and trails that pass through the entire cycle and give it a name - "nomadic story." Here are some examples from the text.

"Not far from the river Uil, where steppe road, merging into a single wide tape, rush  to the crossing Karaotkel rises gravestone construction." ("And the eternal battle"). [4, 11]

"She came out of the aul for a long time, and the striped bag was almost full. At other times, the old woman with such a burden is usually returned home, but today she hobbled from bush to bush, all away from the the aul ..." ("And the eternal battle"). [4, 12

"Half-naked-haired boy of seven and large forehead gray wolf rushed out of woods  on a high hill covered with thick summer grass, and began to turn somersaults on the green carpet." ("Last Capital") [ 4, 38]

"The road wound between rocky hills, and it was evident as she runs toward the distant covered by a bluish haze the gorge. The lonely traveler measured her steps." ("Cop-azhal") [ 4,161]

For Kazakhs, as a nomadic ethnic group, path, journey, travel is an essential part of the socio-cultural system related to a particular way of life, worldview, values. Totality concepts, symbols and images associated with the concept of "path" forms of the same name mifologema, present in the collective consciousness:

"Each nation has a long history, dear Khan - said Dzhanibek. - They say you're plunged into the past nomads, they praised their deeds, both good and bad. Much whether will achieve children raised in such an environment?

- According to the laws of the steppe, the ancestors are ahead of their descendants - again politely bowed Alash Khan. And majdan  raged like a river over the banks. Was approaching the hour when Dzhanibek and Ivan Red were to bless the Russian regiment in the way. "

Magnificent metaphor concept is a fragment of the story "When hungry for myth", dedicated to the history embodied in the rock petroglyphs:

"The old man intervened again and again with a quiet smile.

- I think my ancestors were looking at it all the more easy, - he said, run your hand: - How do you define yourself in a flat, boundless steppes? On the roads. They are many on the face of the earth. On this ground, riddled roads make a noise life, there were wars, was advancing peace. Try to  portray it all. Ported to the stone.  Think out as you can, only postponed to a stone, and so that was the truth. Here and there on the stone line. "[ 4,128]

"Figurative symbolism movement – one of the main components of Form Creation composite spatial arts organization Eurasian nomads. Academician A. Okladnikov defined world perception as dynamic unity of style rock paintings:   "Figure stretched to the limit and filled with indomitable energy, there is no figure,  congeal in place. Moose fast paced, running,  jumping, pulling his head forward". [5, 92]

Ancient Neolithic pastoralists, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age and later nomads to carve same images: mountain goats, horses, mouflon, deer, wolves, snow leopards, hunting scenes and military battles, ritual magic and mythological subjects. Just as intricate mosaic petroglyphs architectonic complex story. The author sees the border scenes of ancient petroglyphs formed by closed lines. Equal to the composition of the novel is constructed within the framework set in the history of chronotopes past and present. In the role straight lines separating them, act story line old Elen, who, telling about the past, and talked about the lines - roads: three lines and three roads - the war, life and eternity.

Mediators in space and time are the memory of Elen, rock paintings, the fingers on the strings, music of dombra. Memory creates images that come to life in a duel petroglyphs stallions Blue and Winged silhouette horse on the background of evening twilight, easily and gracefully running a strange beast - the wolf-fox. Story of the Past is interrupted sound of an airplane or matured time midnight. But the legend continues and the dead of night, until dawn, when is filled the Golden Dawn and night shadow goes to the mountains to the lowlands and caves. The story ends and the ends of the earth the way the old man Elen, rushed, despite his frailty and doom act, separate faced in mortal combat stallions.

"An infinite path nomad measured cycle time runs horse (space steppe in the five-month path width). Orientation in space is defined with respect to the four sides of the earth. The movement is determined by the sun, with the direction to the east. The spatial characteristics are based on a vertical sky - earth, horizontal : east (front), west (back), south (right), north (left) ". [ 6, 82]

"Satybaldy dragged tall wether for the yurt, pushed, grabbed his legs above the hooves of a rope, putting them criss-cross each other, and by expanding the head to the southwest, slashed his throat with a knife". [4, 245]

"The Expendables, continuous noise of life met the land morning. Everything around lived, ringing, moving. The light flaring up in the morning entered the yurt, mingled with the glow of a dying fire and fell face Secker ... On the hill where Secker stood for many days, buried his wife Botakan . On her favorite hill to hear the wind whistling and the clatter of horses, and saw the waves of Uil and white road on which it will come and go from distant battles".[4,33]

The overall meaning of the story "The Tale of nomad" comes down to the importance of preserving the continuity of modern people's life to the moral and ethical values of the past. They, in the understanding of the author, and therefore the value that can inherently be renewed and updated in the quest contemporaries own sovereign path of development. Accompany your creations Explanatory notes to the translation and meaning of words and realities, the author could easily create a parallel metatekst works in extended deep comments to those events, which have become a canvas fable of his narrative. Especially that "internal measure" genre Sanbaev's  story  on the organization is in some kind of border with the historical novel field. Thus, the authors are interested in a particular historical moment, the conflict, which is expressed in a political crisis and is associated with the specifics of the era. A similar role is played by repetitive plot situations - in the first place, the choice of the protagonist of life's journey, fight and win (defeat) as the culmination of this path. So, the experience of Bulat in the story "When crave myth" perceived quintessential understanding our contemporary way:

"Bulat heard breathing rocks stored on your stones departed people, understand dumbness warm hills and silent wisdom cold mountains. Rough feelings Bulat, freed from all superficial as it came to life again worsened. And he thought, as well, that he still returned to his homeland, where the left is still in infancy, which again adopted him this expensive world, which is always unnoticeably but firmly lived in his heart. The joy and amazement filled his soul, a keen sense he knew that a little closer to the world and the hidden mysteries of the ancient artists and architects. He saw himself as a creator ... " [4, 142]

All six novels, packed in the same book, reminiscent of placer of small glittering in the sun many facets of sand splinter once by boulders and efforts evolved into a small similarity mother mountains. Reflecting a bygone faces, words, emotions and life, they have become the focus of memory, they are covered with centuries paves the caravan and nomadic ways.

Such is the specificity of the symbolic semantics concept  path as universal world culture, in prose of one of the most prominent national writers of  Kazakh literature of the twentieth century - Satimzhan  Sanbaev.

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