Folklore traditions in the novel “Abay” by Mukhtar Auezov

Abstract

This article deals with a matter of classical heritage, folklore and the epic “Manas”, one of the ancient samples of the epos creativity, known all over the world by its epic scope. The special position taken by Mukhtar Auezov among scholars and intellectuals of the Turkish peoples in creating and writing of rare literary pearls has been explained in this paper and it is noted that Mukhtar Auezov’s style is distinguished amongst the 20th century’s prose. As this article touches upon the novel “Abay”, the folklore motives contained herein, the social and political events occurred in the life of Kazakh people and finally the customs and traditions are shed light. The main object of the research in this paper is to analyze the folklore traditions in the novel “Abay” by Auezov. This novel written by the well-known writer contains the literary description of the customs and traditions Kazakh people, traditions and lots of proverbs, which draw attention at each page hereof. All these aspects are formed in him with the time under the influence of the unique landscapes of the Kazakh steppes and impression created by tales and legends of his grandfather. Despite the fact that the nature is one of the main plotlines in the novel, the opposition of nature and society sheds light on many ordinary relations arisen between members to this society. As it was noted in the article, the love disseminated to him by his grandfather for Abay Kunanbayov, the founder of the Kazakh literature was resulted in future in the appearance of this mighty novel.

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