Kazakh literature

[Anonymous No.23188058]

Thread for Kazakh literature

[Anonymous No.23188755]

>>23188058
There's a lot of Kazakh students in my town and they are all fucking weirdos

[Anonymous No.23188764]

I wish that there were icelandic saga type literature in central asia

[Anonymous No.23188783]

>>23188058
The Secret History of the Mongols is probably the big one.
>>23188764
The Nart Sagas are close, more eastern Europe though. Good stuff either way. There is influence from and to.

[Anonymous No.23188818]

[Anonymous No.23188819]

Not exactly Kazakh literature, but set in Kazakhstan and written by another central Asian: A Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years by Chinghiz Aitmatov

[Anonymous No.23190345]

>>23188764
All Central Asian cultures were nomadic. This lifestyle precludes written works because you now have to carry them around and you must travel light: only those things absolutely necessary for survival.

[Anonymous No.23190480]

>>23188058
I can't think of a single contribution to culture produced by a Kazakh.
The only thing I've ever seen them succeed in are individual sports like wrestling, judo, and weightlifting, which reward huge turnover.

[Anonymous No.23190483]

>>23188783
Cool
Do you have famous bandits coming up with poems after say, a killing they did or an escape they made?
>>23190345
There's also oral literature and I don't think any nomadic culture has existed on a purely survival level

[Anonymous No.23190670]

Mukhtar Auezov

[Anonymous No.23190826]

>>23188764
me too but that type was usually written due to cope (repeated invasions and stuff) while central asian people are pretty chill & tough
you could look into the Irk Bitig which is a "divination manual" for knuckle-bone divination (which btw has a huge literature, especially concerning Roman and Greek sources) bringing it close to the Tarot
while it also has obvious Chinese and Mongolian influences (pic is Mongol shagai), it is obviously an unique Central Asian work
>>23190345
>because you now have to carry them around and you must travel light: only those things absolutely necessary for survival
the Jews carried around the ark of the covenant, while they were cruising around in the desert
Attila had a tent (yurt?) made from golden plates
so your excuse is not really valid, especially since Central Asians had access to paper from China, a very convenient medium

[Anonymous No.23190900]

>>23188058
I am from there. If you want to check out our literature then consider reading:
1. Abai Kunanbaiuly for poems. He is widely regarded in here as the founder of kazakh written literature.
2. Sabit Mukanov if you want to read an autobiography of a man who lived through an industrialization of kazakh steppe.
3. Chingiz Aitmatov. Although he is a kyrghyz, I consider him one of the best novelists of soviet era.
4. Mukhtar Auezov, specifically "The Path of Abai". The novel is largely about the lives of kazakh people at the end of 19th century through eyes of Abai.

[Anonymous No.23190938]

>>23188818
>Borat is here

[Anonymous No.23191350]

>>23190900
>I am from there
Me too bro

[Anonymous No.23191456]

>>23190483
The narts? probably, they go into song at the drop of a hat but a lot of it is silly adventures and thinly veiled day to day life.
>I am so going to win this magical whetstone that does not seem particularly magical because all it can do is keep my sword sharp, not sure I can even use it to sharpen my ax, oddly particular about it keeping my sword sharp...but the other two whetstones seem a bit more magical and I will win those as well.
>hey I won them
>I should sing about this

>bros come check out this giant skull!
>thats a big head
>hey, god, you want to make this fella alive again?
>Sure thing, anything for you guys.
>hmm, you seem to have forgotten his eyes? he did have eyes, right?
>I don't need eyes, its ok. Back in my day all we needed were stones, we would squeeze the juice out of them as you would a fruit and then like it. Like this.
>juices rock into a jar
>Yo god, turn this guy back into dust
>10-4 little buddy
>bros, got some rock juice, lets get high and sing a song!

and so on. Don't recall any involving bandits breaking into verse and most likely the bandits would be killed or run off or smited before they had a chance to compose even a sonnet.

[Anonymous No.23191556]

>>23191350
>>23190900
thank you for the apples & horses

[Anonymous No.23191634]

>>23191350
I am not joking, I really am.
>>23191556
Your welcome.