Features of modernism in Zhusipbek Aimauytov's novel “Akbilek”

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze Zhusipbek Aimauytov's novel “Akbilek” for the presence of modernist features in it. “Akbilek” (1927) is one of the first modernist novels in Kazakh literature, which was created during the period of the appearance of such works in European and American literature. This is the reason for the special interest in this novel. Its importance is difficult to overestimate, given the fact that the development of modernism in Kazakh literature in the first third of the twentieth century was artificially interrupted by the imposition of socialist realism, as well as political repression of modernist writers and poets. The analyzed novel examines such features of the modernist novel as polyphonism, mythologism, the originality of artistic time and space, as well as the reception of the “stream of consciousness” and other means of artistic depiction. The author substantiates the regularity of the formation of modernist poetics in the works of J. Aimauytov by socio-historical context.