The story of Ch. Aitmatov Jamila: on the problem of literary embodiment of the cultural identity of Central Asia

Abstract

This study gives a general description of the "literature of the peoples of the USSR", presents the key features of the creative manner of Chingiz Aitmatov, an outstanding Kyrgyz Soviet writer, one of the few representatives of multinational Soviet literature who have earned international recognition. Special attention is paid to the key literary text of the prose writer, from which, in fact, his creative biography began — the story Jamila, published in 1958. The authors of the article focus on the structure of the central character, a young woman from a distant Kyrgyz village, who found the strength in the name of love to overcome the pressure of national tradition, which very rigidly determined the social role and fate of a woman. The portrait characteristic of Jamila is analyzed in detail; her psychological features, which are most clearly manifested in comparison with other heroes of this story; the logic of her character development, first of all, the reasons for the break with the traditional way of life. The conclusions note that Aitmatov"s story should be decoded today in the logic of the study of human character, which was formed in the Russian classics.