Seytkazy Elmira

undergraduate of the II course

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

e-mail: seytkazinova83@mail.ru

scientific supervisor – professor Abysheva U.

 

Originality of national vision of the world

in O. Bokeev's works and zhyrau

Almaty, Kazakhstan

The main spiritual and cultural property of mankind is the world of art and fiction. Each people are rich, and this national wealth is expressed in their culture. It reflects intelligence, mentality of the nation in bright images and bears in herself elements of universal values. In our modern era, an era of progresses and achievements it is perhaps difficult to find in the company of the person who doesn't have any relation to this or that art form. All art forms: cinema, theater, painting or music all of them have spiritual and moral value, and the constant companion of the modern person. And what place is taken by fiction in our life?

In formation of moral way, intelligence and spiritual wealth of the human person the fiction plays an important role. The fiction is a teacher of life, a source of spiritual knowledge. "What is happiness — to be competent!" — the great writer M. Gorky exclaimed, for the first time in the childhood having read Pushkin "The Bakhchsarai fountain", "Eugene Onegin" and "Dubrovsky". Literature on an equal basis with all art forms such as theater, cinema, music and painting gives joy of pleasure fine and feeling of completeness of life. The feeling of participation to fine, pleasures from transfer to future generation is created. Reading, fiction we plunge into the world of love, beauty and character isn't considerably built up, the knowledge is replenished, the intelligence increases. Literature learns to think, love, live!

Work of art, prosaic, lyrical or drama bears the philosophical, ethical or esthetic character. Manifestation of author's identity, the revealing these or those vital phenomena, depends on a style choice.     

One of bright representatives of the Kazakh prose of the XX century, author of collections of prosaic works such how "Pleiades" (1971), "Where you, foal bausond?" (1973), "Glacial mountains" (1975). "A trace of lightnings" (1978), "The singing barkhans" (1981), "Shout" (1984), "Trains pass by" (1985), "Person deer" (1987) is Oralkhan Bokeev.

Books were issued in German, Slovak, Bulgarian, English, Hungarian, Arab, Chinese, Japanese languages, and also in languages of the people of the CIS.

O. Bokeev is writer realist. He is called the "rigid" writer. It was and remains to that. In the works it avoids idylls and melodramatic effects.

O. Bokeev's philosophy – is deep, ethics – are exacting. Reading works of the author it is possible to notice how the author treats with special insistence the reader. He doesn't suffer the superficial attitudes towards himself and more so to the prose.

The main heroes of  O. Bokeev is aboriginals of the aul, shepherds, machine operators, tractor operators, foresters, reindeer breeders, aksakals and, of course, absolutely young children. In each of them a peculiar spiritual system, a peculiar national character are brightly expressed. "All prose of O. Bokeev is directed to reflection about the good and evil, about force and bravery, about true and imaginary cultural wealth. It from the most sources fills with questions of meaning of life, mission of the person, develops, as debate, competition of arguments, moral programs. The confession here easily proceeds in the sermon, and internal monologues quite often of  treatises. Heroes of stories and short stories of the writer – entirely and, first of all, philosophers" [1].

One of a peculiar line of the writer is the deep philosophy. And one of noticeable subjects of its prose became a loneliness subject. He as if creates models of human destiny and characters where the loneliness – becomes the main detail of human disharmony. As it was told Bokeev's heroes first of all philosophers above, but their philosophy doesn't come off the roots from the ancestors. As we know, the motive of loneliness in Kazakh literature originates since the time of Korkyt, since the time of Khoja Akhmet Yassawi. "The legend tells that Korkyt from the youth couldn't reconcile with rapidity of human life therefore decided to fight against inevitable death. Tormented by the thoughts and driven by dream of immortality, Korkyt leaves people, but anywhere and everywhere he sees death: in the wood — the decayed and fallen down tree speaks to it about the death and about the inevitable end for Korkyt; in the steppe — a feather grass, burning out under the sun, speaks to it about the same; even powerful mountains were told it of the destruction expecting them, steadily adding that the same end is waited also by Korkyt. Seeing and hearing all this, Korkyt in the lonely torments hollowed from a tree Shyrgay — the first Kobyz, pulled on it strings and played, pouring the painful thoughts and forth" [2].

And Khoja Akhmet Yassawi in 63 years ground himself in a vault and other life carried out there, having explained it so: "I reached age of the prophet, more long and it isn't necessary to me. You shouldn't live more age of the prophet". And he lived all the other life in loneliness. In this regard there is a wish to note that the philosophical thinking is put in each heart of the steppe Kazakh people and in every image of Bokeev.  

In the works of Bokeev reflects how the person is lonely in this huge world, among billions of people. "Billions of people trample down a globe face, and from their shout the world groans. The huge shouting world. In it it is difficult to hear an echo now unless to listen to itself and suddenly to understand, as thoughts, and the purposes, and even our actions – all this echo of thoughts, the purposes and actions of other people. Among them and those who is already not present who sleep underground.

If they from the "never" could return back, from the it "is impossible", from the "forgive", maybe, would teach live not to tell each other cruel words, not to torment each other, and to live on this wide earth as live on free pastures …

But the world shouts, and in this shout it is impossible to hear shout of one person. And when it remains one among the huge silent world, its shout is answered by an echo" [4, 149].

The loneliness in the middle of millions of people leads the writer to thought about as far as the person is sincerely lonely. The shouting world sometimes not in forces to hear a voice of one person. The world absorbs it. And here it is possible to notice a conformable author's caroling about life, about loneliness from songs of steppe philosophers. 

In works the author touches on a mutual understanding issue. Indifference in relation to environment induces sometimes the "cruel egoism" which fell asleep in the depth of human consciousness and not considerably starts manipulating over our soul. This perspective mentioned in Bokeev's prose is conformable about  zhyrau where important public problems were sung. And one of those is Shalkiiz-zhyrau. "Its works differed in deep emotional influence, sharpness and melody, laconicism and beauty. The philosophy of life of the simple medieval nomad, his concept about morals and ethics found reflection in his creativity. He considered that in the world there is nothing eternal and constant. According to the statement to zhyrau human qualities are covered not in an origin, not in position which the person holds in society, and in him, in its personal qualities. Only the fair person can be useful to the fatherland, can be called as the Azamat - citizen. "Good people – the mountain where the owl doesn't fly up, Will die – but good them there are words" - Shalkiiz-zhyrau" wrote [3].

The same ethics sound and in Bokeev's prose. In the works the writer as if addresses to the reader, reminding that the person has to value vital values, simple human qualities. Reminding that dying, there will be no road back, from the "never", from "is impossible", and from "forgive". Life doesn't love weak, doesn't suffer the mean. But nevertheless the nature creates also such, sincerely weak among great, and mean among the humane. Will be born the person and to live keeping a worthy name of the person demands much, but not everyone manages. "… unless we with you are white as milk, are pure as water? Unless are innocent? Who knows, for what sins this painful death is sent you? But whatever were your sins – big or small, - try to die adequately, without groan, without shout. Shout doesn't help anything, doesn't even facilitate death" [4, 216]. Making mistakes, everyone has to be responsible for the sins. Each act demands responsibility in relation to itself. The person bears heavy responsibility for himself and for the acts. And he has to remember it always. In the prose O. Bokeev demands it, a sober, optimistic view on life, not to recede before vital illnesses, to be able to fight and overcome vital difficulties. But fir-trees we could strangle some negative human qualities in a deep dungeon of our humane consciousness, wouldn't be in our life of these infinite "if I could … if I knew …". "Perhaps, if I managed to catch, solve then deaf mutter, wouldn't make a set of mistakes..." [4, 150]. If we could understand correctly proper words if we could hear "shout" of close people, would be the changed mind acts for which would regret for the rest of the natural. If we could … the world was another, life would be another.

As Shalkiiz said about zhyrau that in the world there is nothing eternal and constant, also and Bokeev in the works touches upon a death subject more than once. And as it is noticeable in its works he isn't afraid of it, and calls the reader aren't afraid. "… the death isn't terrible when the dream is executed. And dream in reserving the noble cause meeting needs the people" the Writer always I was against accommodation of senseless life. The person has to live, create in the benefit to himself and all people. The inept dreamer, won't be able to live fruitful life, and especially to embody these dreams in reality. 

The subject of a family, the family center occupy much important role in works of the artist. The author in the works as if recreates a peculiar world of a family on the basis of three intimate feelings – Belief, Hope and Patience. "The shepherd bent to Zhenya and kissed her on the cracked mouth. "I trust you, and this main thing, - he mentally addressed to it. – With three essences it is cast in the lot the person – with Belief, Hope and Patience. My Belief is you, my Hope – the eldest son. And Patience always with me. And if I lose at least one it, the end will come to me". From this fragment it is possible to notice as far as the author appreciated those feelings on the basis of which the family keeps. The artist builds the formula of creation of the family center family happiness about which sang in Aktamberdi-zhyrau, Bukhar-zhyrau's works and Shal-akyn.  

From this follows that Bokeev's heroes deep philosophers. But their philosophy is peculiar. Let them be lonely, but their souls merge together with philosophers of the steppe Kazakh people. 

Literature

1. http://www.nklibrary.kz/struktura-biblioteki

2. http://e-history .kz/ru/biography/view/30.

3. http://www .moluch.ru/conf/ped/archive/22/2127/

4. Chelovek-Olen. Stories; Rasskazy/Oralkha Bokeev. Astana: Audarma, 2011. – 568 p.