Chinghiz aitmatov biography of abraham

Go to On this day. Previous day Next day. Go to Foreigners in Russia. Chinghiz Aitmatov was the most celebrated representative of Kyrgyzstan, a landlocked, mountainous nation of five million people in the heart of Central Asia and a Soviet republic until Aitmatov is revered for building a bridge between the world of traditional Kyrgyz folklore and modern Eurasian literature.

A bilingual and bicultural writer, Aitmatov wrote his prose and plays in both his native Kyrgyz and in Russian. His works have been translated into more than languages. He brilliantly combined elements of Kyrgyz folktales and epics with formally traditional Russian realism. Aitmatov was deeply in love with his native land and lore, but he was also a Soviet patriot and a true internationalist.

He urged the Kyrgyz Soviet authorities to treat the Kyrgyz language with dignity and to elevate its official position along side that of Russian, which was at the time described as "the second mother tongue" of the Kyrgyz people. He endorsed the Kyrgyz language's status in the s, when few schools were teaching in Kyrgyz in Bishkek formerly Frunze , the capital of Kyrgyzstan.

To understand Chingiz Aitmatov, we must first become familiar with the spectrum of themes placed at his disposal by the Asian culture and to understand his themes, it is necessary to understand the Kyrgyz social milieu from which he emerged, the cultural ties that have honed the Kyrgyz culture over centuries and the evolution of that culture when placed under the strain of new, even alien, Soviet trends.

A major theme in Aitmatov's stories concerns inequality among male and female members of traditional Central Asian society.

The son of one of Kyrgyzstan's leading Communist officials who was executed in Stalin's purges, Aitmatov studied animal husbandry in college before turning to.

The sub themes that emerge in story after story include the oppression of women by men, landlords, and mullahs. He writes about the lack of access to education in the region especially in rural areas and particularly for girls , treatment of women as commodities and polygamy. Aitmatov believed that mankind's socio-political, economic, ideological and even environmental problems would disappear if education could be advanced beyond rote memorization, and if a true communal concern, a true love, could meld humans and nature.