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READING OLZHAS SULEIMENOV (ЧТЕНИЕ ОЛЖАСА СУЛЕЙМЕНОВА)

Bibliographic Description

READING OLZHAS SULEIMENOV (ЧТЕНИЕ ОЛЖАСА СУЛЕЙМЕНОВА). – Алматы : Central Asia Production, 2021. – ISBN 978-975-7213-93-2.

Publisher
Central Asia Production
Year of publication
2021
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
English
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

I went through the first pages of this amazing collection, where poetry comes with the works by artists, in a few minutes. An hour later, I already delved into each new page for long. The creators of this amazing collection have done a work that I would not have been able to do. It makes you to get a grasp of artworks and gaze into poetry. It is gratifying that the album includes works not only by Kazakhstan artists, but masters from all over the Turkic world. The literary content of this collection consists of four sections. The first one – "Earth, bow down to Man!" – is dedicated to the brightest year of my literary activity – the year of 1961 lit by the flight of Gagarin. And that April, a delight full of hopes for a triumphant future! But in the same early years (until April), a scattered, multicolored outbreak of poetry writing was evolving, where light colors did not predominate at all. Which is correct, because a picture cannot be created with white paint alone. But no one comes to this comforting conclusion at a young age. Much later. But still early in life. About this is the second section – "The Poems of Different Years". The collector found in my first books the poems long forgotten by me. I was rediscovering their living colors and expressiveness. I found this section more meaningful. But an hour later, the third – "The Clay Book" – became the best, which, I realized, should to be reread over the years, in a colorful design. Antoine Vitez wanted to add "The Clay Book" special colors when he read it in French (translated by Léon Robel). He was a poet and director of the Comédie-Française, the main theater in Paris. He was going to give it a stage form and put on a play. He was fascinated by the intrigue – "love turns a barbarian into a man", and in every act, the hero of Ishpak had to appear on the stage in a new, colorful dress. But then the section "The Language of Writing" became the best for me, where the collection authors tried to express the idea pronounced by me for more than fifty years ago, that each ancient word was at first the name of a graphic sign and original hieroglyph.