Chingiz Aitmatov (1928-2008) is a world-renowned author who published works in Kyrgyz and Russian. Aitmatov added important works into literature since 1950 and presented the Kyrgyzstan and Kyrgyz culture to the world using a sense language. While most of the works published within the 70-year Soviet regime have been forgotten today, Chingiz Aitmatov's works have been translated into hundreds of languages and are still being read. This is because his works not only told the stories of yesterday but also saw tomorrow. Through Chingiz Aitmatov's works, a picture of what happened within the communist regime can be seen.
Published in Chapter:
Chingiz Aitmatov's Grand Narrative
Ömer Çakın (Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey) and Mehmet Akif Günay (Gümüşhane University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4903-2.ch004
Abstract
Beyond political and cultural criticisms, grand narratives have the authority to disclose real facts. This authority is most effective in the field of culture. Grand narratives are the universal presentation of local culture. In a culture dominated by grand narratives, the dominant ideology of the regime is to control knowledge. Grand narratives play a role in generalizing and transferring information skillfully while describing the contemporary situation. A novelist was defined as a mirror reflecting the period and society in which he lived. Likewise, Chingiz Aitmatov tried to depict the political, social, and cultural structure of his period, and accordingly, formed his own grand narrative. The author skillfully revealed the facts of the period regarding the Marxist tradition and described the social, cultural, and political structure of the period using a tentative language in parallel with the facts such as analogy, myth, and legend.