MEDIEVAL EAST IN THE NOVEL BY E. TURSUNOV «THE MAMLUK»

Abstract

The article focuses on the study of E. Tursunov's novel «Mamluk» in which the main character is Sultan Baybars. Appeal of E. Tursunov to the subject of Mamluks was a continuation after M. Simashko described the theme of the medieval East in the literature of Kazakhstan. A novel of E. Tursunov can be regarded as a historical novel, as its author, while recreating a life way of Sultan of Egypt – the country of Misr, turned to historical and archive documents and sources. There is a colossal literature about Baybars. The literary texts about Sultan Baybars by various Kazakh authors create a literary environment, an intersection. The novel of E. Tursunov «Mamluk» is directed at comprehension of the epoch and the scale of the personality of Baybars in the new ideological conditions. The modern prose writer of Kazakhstan continues the tradition of his predecessors who created fiction based on the synthesis of two or more cultures that had a synthetic – general cultural and philosophical approach to the phenomena under study. For example, in the works of Ch. Aitmatov the Kyrgyz and Kazakh themes are inseparable. The Turkmen and Kazakh themes are presented in the prose and journalism of M. Simashko. Aesthetic focus on the synthesis of cultural influences and dialogue of cultural traditions leads Tursunov to artistic discoveries. The sources to which the author refers, act as a reference point in the development of the author's vision of the world and distant historical times. The research is based on the scientific concepts of analysis of the artistic text and the artistic national world. The philological analysis of the text undertaken by the authors of this article is relevant, because the artistic text as an object of scientific analysis has several levels of comprehension of meaning. Leading trends in the humanities affect the nature of the reader's communication with cultural texts. The motif of the way in the epic tradition of the Kazakh literature evolves and is studied in this publication as an artistic sign in the aspect of semantics.