ჩინგიზ აიტმატოვის რომანის („საქონდაქრე“) ზოგიერთი ასპექტის გააზრებისათვის

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2021-03-31
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უნივერსიტეტის გამომცემლობა
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It can be said with certainty that Chinghiz Aitmatov (1928-2008) is one of the greatest Soviet writers. At the same time, he is regarded as one of the most outstanding representatives of the world literature of the second half of the twentieth Century. Aitmatov wrote in both Kyrgyz and Russian. His works were translated into about 170 languages of the world. During the Soviet period, was awarded the Lenin Prize and he was also awarded the USSR State Prize three times. This great writer was honored with many prestigious international awards too. In 2008, Chinghiz Aitmatov was nominated for the Nobel Prize and he had a great chance of getting it, but unfortunately in June of the same year, he died. The novel “The Place of the Skull,” also known as “The Scaffold,” is one of the most prominent works of Chinghiz Aitmatov. It was first published in the Russian-language magazine “Novy Mir” and immediately attracted the attention of both specialists and a wide range of readers. “The Place of the Skull” is a rather complex, multidimensional work. Even though Chinghiz Aitmatov was never a dissident in the classical sense of the word and to some extent, even referred to as a representative of the Soviet nomenclature, he never shied away from disclosing acute social problems which he did in a very rare artistic way and analyzed creatively. In this regard, the novel “The Place of the Skull” acutely depicts the very painful and widespread problem of modern society - drug addiction. From today’s point of view, the problem mentioned beneath is less relevant. However, the controversy over the so-called socialist rule of USSR national economy between the individual characters should be considered as a manifestation of the problematic aspects of the social reality by that time. In this respect, the author clearly has a negative attitude towards the vulgar use of traditional communist ideological clichés. The novel discusses other crucial social issues of those days. However, all in all social problems are an important aspect of this work only as it is adroitly intertwined with much larger, arguably global, and somehow universal issues. It goes without saying that as a highly artistic work, the novel “The Place of the Skull” does not give any schematic advice or exhortations. Ecological, ethical, philosophical, religious and many other complex issues are creatively addressed in this work. The presumable approach of a global catastrophe that humanity may inflict on itself, both in the form of unaccountable destruction of nature and the living environment and nuclear warfare are seen and completely absorbed from an original philosophical and to some extent, religious perspective too. The Aitmatov understanding of the figures of Christ and Pilate is also extremely daring and artistically impressive. In this awesome work of Chinghiz Aitmatov, it is difficult to find any direct answer to the acute problems addressed, but it undoubtedly has a kind of “shock therapy” effect. The author, within the framework of his artistic and cognitive abilities tries his best to awaken humanity, which is moving fast towards a tragic end.
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ეკოლოგია, რელიგია, ფილოსოფია, Ecology, Religion, Philosophy
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პროფესორ ოთარ ბაქანიძისადმი მიძღვნილი საერთაშორისო სამეცნიერო კონფერენცია: ლიტერატურათმცოდნეობა: ისტორია, პერსპექტივები და გამოწვევები, თეზისები, 31 მარტი 2021, გვ. 65-70/ International Scientific Conference Dedicated to Prof. Otar Bakanidze: LITERARY STUDIES: HISTORY, PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES, Abstracts, 31 March 2021, pp.: 65-70