![]() ![]() I tried to open it to the people of my country, so that they would go under a banner of justice to the future’. It was a work of all his life, he devoted to collection of materials all his free time.Ī quatrain is written on his grave: ‘I wrote a story. Ilyas Esenberlin's historical books like ‘The Nomads’ and ‘the Golden Horde’ played a great role in the restoration of the historical basis for Qazaq young generation. In the period when the trilogy of Ilyas Esenberlin was being created there were still no scientific studies of the past of the Qazaq people, and historical events and personalities were not appropriately evaluated. It was a closed topic in the Soviet times. Nobody before Ilyas Esenberlin tried to write about the national liberation movement in Qazaqstan. The book was translated into many languages of the world and published in million copies. In 1976 the trilogy was published as a novel ‘The Nomads’ (translated by Maurice Simashko). In 1971 the second volume of the trilogy ‘The Nomads’ under a title ‘Almas Kylish’ (‘The Charmed Sword’) was published and the third book under a title ‘Zhantalas’ (‘Despair’) was released in 1973. The novel is devoted to the last Qazaq ruler – Kenesary Khan. ![]() It is called in Qazaq language ‘Kahar’ and in Russian and English languages ‘Khan Kene’. The first volume of the trilogy was published in 1969. ![]() ‘The Nomads’ is the first chronicle novel in the Qazaq literature. The trilogy ‘The Nomads’ of Ilyas Esenberlin is the first large-scale, multifaceted work. ![]()
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