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Историческая проза Аммиана фон Бека Литературно-критический очерк
Historical prose of Ammian von Beck

Author(s): Georgiy N. Hlypenko
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: historical prose;historiography;art fiction;chronicle; a novel trilogy;the narrative form;ethnos;ethnic realism;ethnography; ethnic psychology; ethnolinguistics; poetic onomastics

Summary/Abstract: Ammian von Beck is a literary pseudonym of Kyrgyz scientist and linguist, Doc-tor of Philology Sciences, famous Russian-language writer proven as a historical novelist, Professor Bekbalaev Amangeldi Abdyjaparovich. The article analyzes the historical prose by A. von Beck consisting of three nov-els: “The road of a thousand miles, or Legend of the Dungan people”, “Hayreddin Barbarossa – a legendary Ottoman Admiral” and “Huns”. The historical content of works, the relationship between historical truth and artistic fiction and artistic originality of the narrative form is revealed in his works. Treatment to the national origins of the Kyrgyz people as a Turkic ethnic group is set as a goal orientation of the historical romance philology. Ethnographic realism is an artistic level of crea-tive method chosen by the author.It concludes that historical prose of A. von Beck, being a significant achievement of modern Kyrgyz literature, will find a wide range of Russian-speaking readers.

  • Issue Year: 6/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 255-280
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish