PhD
doctorate Sultan Y.
M.O.Auezov
Institute of Literature and Art, Kazakhstan
Features of transformation of modern Kazakh novels
Modern Kazakh prose is
distinguished complex interweaving of different directions, trends, a variety
of forms of expression of the author's worldview. But in this huge cultural and
aesthetic space is clearly visible one common trend - active experimentation
with all elements of the form and content of a work of art that is particularly
evident in the genre of the novel.
For several centuries, this genre is still leading in
the literature that, as noted already in the middle of last century with the
famous Russian scientist M.M.Bakhtin in his work "Epos and the novel"
is due to its incompleteness, plasticity and flexibility, so that "... the
novel - the only becoming and unprepared genre" whose
"backbone", according to the scientist, "is far from being
solidified". Precisely because of this the genre novel surprisingly
organically fit into the modern literary situation, reflecting the cultural
crisis and the search for ways out of it. Of course, in the last decade of the
XXI century this genre with his usual setting on the search for the universal
connection of phenomena significantly transformed.
Today almost all scholars recognize that modern
novelists struggling to find new artistic structures that could most fully
convey not only complicate the reality, but also the inner world of a
contemporary hero. This naturally leads
to new forms of modeling. This trend is manifests itself in both Kazakh and
foreign literature. It is no coincidence in a number of studies, especially in
the Russian literary study concerning postmodern, addresses the question of the
transformation of the genre of the novel. For example, in the monograph
D.V.Zatonsky "Modernism and Postmodernism. Thoughts on Primeval Rotation
of Fine and inelegant Arts
"(Moscow, 2001), a novel in its updated form, regarded as the
pinnacle achievement of the postmodern. In general, currently in Kazakhstan and
foreign literary studies observed intensification of interest in the process of
styling, including the transformation of the genre of the novel. These issues
are to a greater or lesser degree affect in their works almost all the domestic
researchers of modern literature: Z.Ahmetov ("Modern development and
traditions of Kazakh literature"), Murat Auezov ("By Time Binding
Thread "), R. Berdybai ("From the legend to the novel"), Sh.
Eleukenov ("From folklore to the epic novel") M.Karataev ("From
dombras to book"), S.Kirabaev ("High appointment"), as in
studies of foreign scientists as M.Epshteyn, M.Lipovetsky and N..Leyderman,
P.Vayl and A.Genis, A.Nemzer, A.Marchenko, G.Nefagina, and others.
To the problem of genre modification in the literature
in the end of twentieth century devoted a lot of dissertation research, carried
out on the basis of works of one author as an example of one genre or even one
product, and the materials of prose of the end of last century as a whole.
Researchers rightly pointed out that in times of transition is always observed
diffusion of genres, fusion between the previously dominant, but as it has
exhausted itself new forms and embryos, which then also destined to become the
"old".
Unfortunately, the transformation of modern novels
still understudied topic in the Kazakh literary criticism. However, examining
the works of such contemporary novelists as Abdizhamil Nurpeisov («Songy Paryz»),
Mukhtar Magauin («Zharmak»), Bakkozha Mukai («Omirzaya»), Smagul Elubay («Ak boz ui»),
Muhambetkaliuly Kazhygali («Tar
Kezen»), and others we have
identified the following features and factors of transformation of modern
Kazakh novels:
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At the present stage novelistic
genre demonstrates the ability to clot, reduction, reduction of volume that
could be interpreted ambiguously. On
the one hand, as a gaming mismatch primary purpose and its artistic expression.
On the other hand, minimizing the shape, the author «detracts» content,
conversely encrypts it, referring to the previously accumulated cultural
experience.
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- The tendency to fusion,
"hybridization" with other genre patterns manifests itself, firstly,
through a connection with the hagiographic novel form, indicating a desire for
the correlation of the transient and the eternal, to confront dangerous
destructive processes of modernity, expressed a desire to join the universal
laws of life. Second, the actual
creation of author genre forms as a result of the interaction of documentary
and fictional (or pseudo-documentary) story. Third, within the framework of the
novel genre there is a tendency to generic synthesis.
The transformation of the novel genre in modern
literature does not lead to the destruction of his constant structures
allocated M.M. Bakhtin. Firstly, a prominent feature of the modern novel is a
"three-dimensional stylistic" due to the dialogic nature of the Word,
enriched value context preceding tradition. Secondly, retains its significance
"chronotope of unfinished present" compounded by the fact that a work
created at the turn of XX - XXI centuries, is included in a continuous flow of
historical time, because of its through quotational nature. And finally,
thirdly, the image of the hero, which is formed in the "contact zone"
of the author and the reader, in this case is complicated, because the value
one baggage that becomes clear with the help of intertextual references.
The phenomenon of minimize associated with the
collapse of a coherent picture of the world and typical of any border,
transitional epoch, at the present stage gets new genre forms. This is due,
firstly, the postmodern conception of the world as a text in which all the
words already spoken, and secondly, the specificity of time that passes under
the sign of "nano" when unusually enlarged, infinitely great world
personality itself is minimized. The essence of this process is not a
simplification, but rather a complication when compressed form becomes a way of
rethinking the largest, contains endless potential meanings. Synthetic genre
neoplasms suggest a specific artistic thinking of contemporary authors seeking
to display a complex and multifaceted reality by modeling new genre forms.
In this article we looked at the model resulting from
the synthesis of the novel with other genre and tribal entities that allowed us
to consider the main directions of "hybridization".
Literature:
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Alma-Ata, 1978.-268 p.
2. Auezov M.M., By Time Binding Thread, Alma-Ata, 1972.-234 p.
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p.
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