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ШЫҒАРМАЛАРЫ. Т.3. : ДЕРЕКТІ ХИКАЯТТАР

Bibliographic Description

Шығармалары. Т.3. : Деректі хикаяттар / Сәрсеке, Медеу. – Астана : Фолиант, 2014. – ISBN 978-601-7568-23-8; 978-601-7568-20-7.

Author
Сәрсеке, Медеу
Publisher
Фолиант
Year of publication
2014
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Kazakh
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Description

This book concerns the sorrowful fate of five Kadylbekov brothers, the first two of whom - Nurgali and Mergali, known as the Kodalenko brothers - were prominent figures of their time, known throughout Kazakhstan for their enormous contribution to state service. The millstones of the Red repressions destroyed them both before they reached middle age. The writer, drawn to the documentary genre, undertook lengthy research into them and, through archival records and the recollections of their contemporaries, restores these figures to the country's history. The second novella, cast in the form of an essay and, as its very title - «The Er Gaben I Knew» - suggests, is distinguished by its careful and vivid depiction of instructive episodes from the life of Gabit Musrepov, a true master of literary art with whom the author was closely acquainted in the 1960s-70s as his student, and whose life path, literary craft and civic spirit he came to know intimately.

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