A new phenomenon in Central Asian literature: About the work of Sultan Raev

Abstract

The article examines the literary creativity of the People's writer of the Kyrgyz Republic Sultan Raev. This work is aimed at interpreting and presenting Kyrgyz literature to Kazakh readers, the scientific community and the literary environment in a broader scientific aspect based on the works of Sultan Raev, since after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the acquisition of state independence by the states in its composition in the last thirty years, poets and writers of the Kazakh and Kyrgyz peoples have not received sufficient recognition among themselves. The writer, playwright, poet Sultan Raev is one of the most famous writers who over the past three decades has received worldwide recognition not only from the Kyrgyz Republic, but also from the Central Asian region. The article aims to study S. Raev’s novels of “Zhanzhaza” (“Castigation”), “Topan” (“Flood”) and “Kashaba” (wolf’s name) and a number of dramatic works from the point of view of psychological and cultural-historical, comparative-historical and hermeneutic methods. These methods are used to examine the author's personal ideas about time and space, history, the world and human existence, as well as methods of modeling the real world and the inner world of his characters. Through his works, the writer seeks to draw the world's attention to crises and spiritual disasters in the life and consciousness of mankind on earth. In addition, the author's dramatic works reveal the socio-social, cultural nature of complex problems in the history and society of the Kyrgyz people. The surreal literary techniques in the author's novels and the levels of the text are shown. The scientific-practical value of the research is measured by the fact that in higher educational institutions of the country it contributes to filling gaps in the education system about modern Kyrgyz literature and improving the methodological-theoretical aspect of Domestic literary studies in the CIS.