Reception of Anton Chekhov’s oeuvre in Kazakhstan
Рецепция творчества А.П. Чехова в Казахстане
Nurgali K.R. Siryachenko V.V.
2023Tomsk State University
Vestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, Filologiya
2023Issue 83204 - 233 pp.
This article presents an overview of Kazakh literary criticism dedicated to the works of Anton Chekhov. The first attempt is made to systematize the Kazakh literary-critical and artistic reception of Chekhov’s oeuvre in order to identify the main directions of the scientific and artistic comprehension of the creative heritage of the writer and playwright in Kazakh literary criticism. The authors reviewed Kazakh scholars’ studies on Chekhov, due to which different research strategies were revealed in Kazakh Chekhov studies. The relevance of this research lies in the study of receptive aesthetics, intercultural communication and dialogue between Kazakh and Russian cultures. The novelty of the work is in the first attempt of a special research of history and specificity of literary-critical and artistic reception of Chekhov’s works in Kazakhstan, as well as the first attempt of systematization of studies on Chekhov’s works by Kazakhstani researchers. Currently there is no work containing a detailed comprehensive analysis of the reception of Chekhov’s oeuvre in Kazakhstan. The aim of the work is to identify main directions of literary-critical and creative comprehension of Chekhov’s artistic heritage in Kazakh literary studies. In the course of the research we discovered that Kazakh literary-critical and artistic reception of Chekhov’s works is represented by a large number of studies. The interest of Kazakh researchers is aimed at studying the creative heritage of the author. Kazakh literary criticism is focused on an in-depth analysis of the literary text, on different levels of its organization, as well as on the peculiarities and difficulties of its translation into Kazakh. Due to the diversity of research topics, Kazakh Chekhov studies have revealed research strategies that differ from each other. The difference in the thematic approach of Kazakh literary critics to the study of Chekhov’s works is clearly evident. Kazakhstani literary critics mostly leave the biographical aspect of the reception out of their attention. Until now there have been no studies dedicated specifically to Chekhov’s biography in Kazakhstan. We can assume that this topic has been comprehensively studied in Russian literary criticism, and Kazakh researchers can freely refer to Russian researchers’ works due to their knowledge of the Russian language. The majority of studies on Chekhov in Kazakhstan are in the form of scholarly articles, dissertations and monographs. Chekhov’s works are studied in Kazakhstani schools; information about the author can be found in textbooks on Russian literature; however, no separate book dedicated to Chekhov has been published in Kazakhstan.
Anton Chekhov , artistic reception , artistic translation , Kazakh literary criticism , Kazakh theatre , literary-critical reception
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