Chingiz aitmatov knjige online

BORN: 1928, Sheker, Kirghiz Republic, USSR (now Kyrgyzstan)

DIED: 2008, Nürnberg, Germany

NATIONALITY: Kirghiz

GENRE: Fiction, drama

MAJOR WORKS:
Tales of the Mountains and Steppes (1963)
Farewell, Gul'sary! (1966)
The White Ship (1970)
The Ascent of Mt.

Fuji (1973)
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years (1981)

Overview

A prominent literary figure in the former Soviet Union and present-day Russian Federation, Chingiz Aitmatov has helped to bring the history and traditions of the Kirghiz and Kazakh peoples to world attention.

His prose blends legend, myth, and realistic detail to depict the struggles of traditional cultures caught up in the rapid changes of modernization. Critical of Soviet society, but not a dissident, Aitmatov remained in the USSR and even rose to important posts in the government of Mikhail

Gorbachev.

The innovative style of his stories and novels helped break down the rigidities of socialist realism, and opened the wa