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इस उपन्यास में जिन घटनाओं का जिक्र किया गया है, वे इस शताब्दी के तीसरे दशक में मध्य एशिया में सोवियत सत्ता के स्थापनाकाल में घटी थी। एक झलक––
“अरे आप दूइशेन को नहीं जानते। बड़े कानून–कायदे का आदमी है। अपना काम पूरा करने के बाद ही वह किसी दूसरी चीज में दिलचस्पी लेता है,” दूसरा बोला।
“साथियो मुमकिन है कि आप में से कुछ को याद हो, एक जमाना था कि हम दूइशेन के स्कूल में पढ़ा करते थे और वह खुद भी वर्णमाला के सभी अक्षर शायद ही जानता हो,” कहते हुए उसने पलकें मूँदकर सिर हिलाया। उसके चेहरे पर विस्मय और व्यंग्य की झलक थी।
“अरे आप दूइशेन को नहीं जानते। बड़े कानून–कायदे का आदमी है। अपना काम पूरा करने के बाद ही वह किसी दूसरी चीज में दिलचस्पी लेता है,” दूसरा बोला।
“साथियो मुमकिन है कि आप में से कुछ को याद हो, एक जमाना था कि हम दूइशेन के स्कूल में पढ़ा करते थे और वह खुद भी वर्णमाला के सभी अक्षर शायद ही जानता हो,” कहते हुए उसने पलकें मूँदकर सिर हिलाया। उसके चेहरे पर विस्मय और व्यंग्य की झलक थी।
95 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1962
About the author
Chingiz Aitmatov
172 books948 followersChinghiz Aitmatov (Чингиз Айтматов, Tschingis Aitmatow, Čingiz Ajtmatov, Tšõngõz Ajtmatov, Cengiz Aytmatov, Tsjingiz Ajtmatov, Tchinguiz Aïtmatov, جنكيز ايتماتوف) was an author who wrote in both Russian and Kyrgyz. He was the best known figure in Kyrgyzstan literature.
Aitmatov's parents were civil servants in Sheker. The name Chingiz is the same as the honorary title of Genghis Khan. In early childhood he wandered as a nomad with his family, as the Kyrgyzstan people did at the time. In 1937 his father was charged with "bourgeois nationalism" in Moscow, arrested and executed in 1938.
Aitmatov lived at a time when Kyrgyzstan was being transformed from one of the most remote lands of the Russian Empire to a republic of the USSR. The future author studied at a Soviet school in Sheker. He also worked from an early age. At fourteen he was an assistant to the Secretary at the Village Soviet. He later held jobs as a tax collector, a loader, an engineer's assistant and continued with many other types of work.
In 1946 he began studying at the Animal Husbandry Division of the Kirghiz Agricultural Institute in Frunze, but later switched to literary studies at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow, where he lived from 1956 to 1958. For the next eight years he worked for Pravda. His first two publications appeared in 1952 in Russian: The Newspaper Boy Dziuio and Ашым. His first work published in Kyrgyz was Ак Жаан (White Rain) in 1954, and his well known work Jamilya appeared in 1958. 1980 saw his first novel The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years; his next significant novel, The Scaffold was published in 1988. The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years and other writings were translated into several languages.
Aitmatov suffered kidney failure and on 16 May 2008 was admitted to a hospital in Nuremberg, Germany, where he died of pneumonia on 10 June 2008, aged 79. His obituary in The New York Times characterized him as "a Communist writer whose novels and plays before the collapse of the Soviet Union gave a voice to the people of the remote Soviet republic of Kyrgyz" and adds that he "later became a diplomat and a friend and adviser to the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev."
Chinghiz Aitmatov belonged to the post-war generation of writers. His output before Jamila was not significant, a few short stories and a short novel called Face to Face. But it was Jamila that came to prove the author's work. Louis Aragon described the novellete as the world's most beautiful love story, raising it even above Rudyard Kipling's World's Most Beautiful Love Story. Aitmatov's representative works also include the short novels Farewell, Gulsary!, The White Ship, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, and The Scaffold.
Aitmatov was honoured in 1963 with the Lenin Prize for Jamila and later he was awarded a State prize for Farewell, Gulsary!. Aitmatov's art was glorified by admirers. Even critics of Aitmatov mentioned high quality of his novels.
Aitmatov's work has some elements that are unique specifically to his creative process. His work drew on folklore, not in the ancient sense of it; rather, he tried to recreate and synthesize oral tales in the context of contemporary life. This is prevalent in his work; in nearly every story he refers to a myth, a legend, or a folktale. In The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years a poetic legend about a young captive turned into a mankurt serves a tragic allegory and becomes a significant symbolic expression of the philosophy of the novel.
A second aspect of Aitmatov's writing is his ultimate closeness to our "little brothers" the animals, for their and our lives are intimately and inseparably connected. The two center characters of Farewell, Gulsary! are a man and his stallion. A camel plays a prominent role in The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years; one of the key turns of the novel which decide
Aitmatov's parents were civil servants in Sheker. The name Chingiz is the same as the honorary title of Genghis Khan. In early childhood he wandered as a nomad with his family, as the Kyrgyzstan people did at the time. In 1937 his father was charged with "bourgeois nationalism" in Moscow, arrested and executed in 1938.
Aitmatov lived at a time when Kyrgyzstan was being transformed from one of the most remote lands of the Russian Empire to a republic of the USSR. The future author studied at a Soviet school in Sheker. He also worked from an early age. At fourteen he was an assistant to the Secretary at the Village Soviet. He later held jobs as a tax collector, a loader, an engineer's assistant and continued with many other types of work.
In 1946 he began studying at the Animal Husbandry Division of the Kirghiz Agricultural Institute in Frunze, but later switched to literary studies at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow, where he lived from 1956 to 1958. For the next eight years he worked for Pravda. His first two publications appeared in 1952 in Russian: The Newspaper Boy Dziuio and Ашым. His first work published in Kyrgyz was Ак Жаан (White Rain) in 1954, and his well known work Jamilya appeared in 1958. 1980 saw his first novel The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years; his next significant novel, The Scaffold was published in 1988. The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years and other writings were translated into several languages.
Aitmatov suffered kidney failure and on 16 May 2008 was admitted to a hospital in Nuremberg, Germany, where he died of pneumonia on 10 June 2008, aged 79. His obituary in The New York Times characterized him as "a Communist writer whose novels and plays before the collapse of the Soviet Union gave a voice to the people of the remote Soviet republic of Kyrgyz" and adds that he "later became a diplomat and a friend and adviser to the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev."
Chinghiz Aitmatov belonged to the post-war generation of writers. His output before Jamila was not significant, a few short stories and a short novel called Face to Face. But it was Jamila that came to prove the author's work. Louis Aragon described the novellete as the world's most beautiful love story, raising it even above Rudyard Kipling's World's Most Beautiful Love Story. Aitmatov's representative works also include the short novels Farewell, Gulsary!, The White Ship, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, and The Scaffold.
Aitmatov was honoured in 1963 with the Lenin Prize for Jamila and later he was awarded a State prize for Farewell, Gulsary!. Aitmatov's art was glorified by admirers. Even critics of Aitmatov mentioned high quality of his novels.
Aitmatov's work has some elements that are unique specifically to his creative process. His work drew on folklore, not in the ancient sense of it; rather, he tried to recreate and synthesize oral tales in the context of contemporary life. This is prevalent in his work; in nearly every story he refers to a myth, a legend, or a folktale. In The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years a poetic legend about a young captive turned into a mankurt serves a tragic allegory and becomes a significant symbolic expression of the philosophy of the novel.
A second aspect of Aitmatov's writing is his ultimate closeness to our "little brothers" the animals, for their and our lives are intimately and inseparably connected. The two center characters of Farewell, Gulsary! are a man and his stallion. A camel plays a prominent role in The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years; one of the key turns of the novel which decide
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May 27, 2020
Σε σκάρτες ενενήντα σελίδες μια υπέροχη, βαθιά συγκινητική, ιστορία για έναν δάσκαλο σ’ ένα μικρό χωριό της Κιργιζίας, που μπορεί να μην ήξερε πολύ παραπάνω γράμματα, αλλά έδειχνε αφοσίωση, ανιδιοτέλεια κι αγάπη. Κι αυτά από μόνα τους είναι αρκετά.
August 16, 2024
قصة المعلم الاول تترجم ذلك التوق والحنين الى الماضي السحيق في عمر الانسان اما قصة كفاحه فلها شأن آخر ، فلو ان احدنا رأى نفسه بالمرآة يوما ما ورأى علامات الشيب بدأت ترسم خيوطا جديدة في رأسه ووجهه حينها سيسأل نفسه ذلك السؤال الجوهري : هل يستحق كفاحنا في الحياة ان ينسينا حياتنا ويحرمنا تذوق كثيرا من مباهجها؟
June 9, 2025
4,5*
#lerosclássicos
Aquela mulher tão erudita mergulhara nas recordações da sua mocidade, qual, como se diz nas nossas canções, não se alcança nem com os gritos lançados da montanha mais alta. Sem tirar os olhos dos álamos, pareceu ir dizer qualquer coisa, mas desistiu e encavalitou no nariz os óculos que tinha na mão.
Tal como em “Djamila”, Chingiz Aitmatov retrata paisagens e cenas quotidianas do seu Quirguistão com uma enorme doçura e singeleza, ainda que se perceba a dureza da vida nas estepes e nos kolkhozes. Também em “O Primeiro Mestre” seguimos uma rapariga que não quis cumprir o destino que lhe estava reservado, o de ser a segunda mulher de um membro de uma tribo nómada, encontrando um verdadeiro aliado num ambiente hostil. Numa longa carta, a professora catedrática Altinai Sulaimanovna, conta ao narrador como só aprendeu a ler e a escrever aos 14 anos, graças aos esforços de Diuichen, um jovem que, apesar de não ter praticamente instrução, imbuído do espírito do novo homem soviético, decide abrir uma escola num barracão sem condições, onde as crianças tinham de se sentar na palha e atravessar uma ribeira a vau, no pino do Inverno, para lá chegarem. É uma das histórias mais esperançosas e inspiradoras que já li.
Bem vistas as coisas, não teria custado aos habitantes da aldeia reunir-se e lançar dois ou três troncos por cima da corrente. (...) De crassa ignorância, àquela gente pouco importavam as letras, encarando Diuichen como um ser esquisito, meio desaparafusado, que trazia os catraios nas palmas das mãos só porque não imaginou melhor meio para matar o tempo. Que não, diziam, se os queres ensinar, ensina-os até te fartares; quando não, paciência, é só escorraçá-los para casa dos pais. Andavam a cavalo, não precisavam de ponte coisíssima nenhuma.
#lerosclássicos
Aquela mulher tão erudita mergulhara nas recordações da sua mocidade, qual, como se diz nas nossas canções, não se alcança nem com os gritos lançados da montanha mais alta. Sem tirar os olhos dos álamos, pareceu ir dizer qualquer coisa, mas desistiu e encavalitou no nariz os óculos que tinha na mão.
Tal como em “Djamila”, Chingiz Aitmatov retrata paisagens e cenas quotidianas do seu Quirguistão com uma enorme doçura e singeleza, ainda que se perceba a dureza da vida nas estepes e nos kolkhozes. Também em “O Primeiro Mestre” seguimos uma rapariga que não quis cumprir o destino que lhe estava reservado, o de ser a segunda mulher de um membro de uma tribo nómada, encontrando um verdadeiro aliado num ambiente hostil. Numa longa carta, a professora catedrática Altinai Sulaimanovna, conta ao narrador como só aprendeu a ler e a escrever aos 14 anos, graças aos esforços de Diuichen, um jovem que, apesar de não ter praticamente instrução, imbuído do espírito do novo homem soviético, decide abrir uma escola num barracão sem condições, onde as crianças tinham de se sentar na palha e atravessar uma ribeira a vau, no pino do Inverno, para lá chegarem. É uma das histórias mais esperançosas e inspiradoras que já li.
Bem vistas as coisas, não teria custado aos habitantes da aldeia reunir-se e lançar dois ou três troncos por cima da corrente. (...) De crassa ignorância, àquela gente pouco importavam as letras, encarando Diuichen como um ser esquisito, meio desaparafusado, que trazia os catraios nas palmas das mãos só porque não imaginou melhor meio para matar o tempo. Que não, diziam, se os queres ensinar, ensina-os até te fartares; quando não, paciência, é só escorraçá-los para casa dos pais. Andavam a cavalo, não precisavam de ponte coisíssima nenhuma.
October 28, 2019
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June 27, 2021
স্তেপ পাহাড় ঘেঁষা কুর্কুরেউ গ্রাম। রুশ বিপ্লবের পরে এই গ্রামের এক যুবকের ছোট্ট বিপ্লবের কাহিনী শোনাচ্ছেন এক গল্প কথক। উত্তম পুরুষে রচিত গল্পটি একজন শিক্ষকের, একজন শিক্ষানবিশের আর ছোট্ট একটি গ্রামের যা শীতে জমে গিয়ে স্তেপের একটি অংশ হয়ে দাঁড়ায়।
১৯২৪ সাল। সোভিয়েত তখন নিজেকে গুছিয়ে নিতে তৎপর। ঐ সময়ে কুর্কুরেউ গ্রামে আবির্ভাব ঘটলো এক অর্ধশিক্ষিত যুবকের যে ইশকুল ইশকুল বলে পাগল হয়ে যাচ্ছে। শোনা গেল বহু বছর আগে ক্ষিধের জ্বালায় কুর্কুরেউ ছেড়ে যাওয়া তাশতানবেকের ছেলে সে, নাম দিউইশেন। গ্রামের ছেলেপেলেদের অক্ষরজ্ঞান শেখাতেই নিজ উদ্যোগে তার গ্রামে আগমন। চিরদিনই এমন মূর্খ থাকবে নাকি ওরা! কিন্তু গ্রামের লোকেদের কোনো আগ্রহ দেখা গেল না, সংগ্রাম করতে হলো। দিউইশেনই পাহাড়ের উপরে পরিশ্রম করে স্কুল খুললো, বাড়ি বাড়ি গিয়ে শিক্ষার্থী যোগাড় করলো। শিক্ষার্থীদের মধ্যে সবার বড় ১৪ বছরের কিশোরী আলতিনাই, চাচী বাঁকা চোখকে সামনে রেখেই সে তার লেলিনভক্ত মাষ্টার সাবের ক্লাসে আসা যাওয়া করতে লাগলো আর শিখতে লাগলো।
দিউইশেনের ধারণা আলতিনাই বড় হয়ে বড় ধরনের কিছু হতে পারবে তবে বাধ সাধলেন চাচী। আলতিনাইয়ের বিয়ের ব্যবস্থা করলেন তিনি। দিউইশেন নিজের রক্ত ঝরানোর পরও এই বিপদ থেকে আলতিনাইকে রক্ষা করতে পারলেন না। আলতিনাইকে পাশবিক নির্যাতনের স্বীকার হতেই হল। তবুও যে সে কি করে বৈজ্ঞানিক আলতিনাই সুলাইমানভা হয়ে উঠল সে গল্প নিয়েই এই বই- প্রথম শিক্ষক।
~২৭ জুন, ২০২১
খুবই মেয়েলি ধরনের শোকার্ত দৃষ্টিতে পপলার দুটোর পানে তাকিয়ে রইলেন তিনি। হঠাৎ মনে হলো আমার, যিনি দাঁড়িয়ে আছেন তিনি একাডেমিশিয়ান সুলাইমানভা নন, একজন সামান্যা সাধারণ কির্গিজ রমণী, কি সুখে কি দুঃখে বড়োই সাদামাটা। এই বৈজ্ঞানিক মহিলা, মনে হলো, সে মুহূর্তে ফিরে গেছেন নিজ শৈশবে-
১৯২৪ সাল। সোভিয়েত তখন নিজেকে গুছিয়ে নিতে তৎপর। ঐ সময়ে কুর্কুরেউ গ্রামে আবির্ভাব ঘটলো এক অর্ধশিক্ষিত যুবকের যে ইশকুল ইশকুল বলে পাগল হয়ে যাচ্ছে। শোনা গেল বহু বছর আগে ক্ষিধের জ্বালায় কুর্কুরেউ ছেড়ে যাওয়া তাশতানবেকের ছেলে সে, নাম দিউইশেন। গ্রামের ছেলেপেলেদের অক্ষরজ্ঞান শেখাতেই নিজ উদ্যোগে তার গ্রামে আগমন। চিরদিনই এমন মূর্খ থাকবে নাকি ওরা! কিন্তু গ্রামের লোকেদের কোনো আগ্রহ দেখা গেল না, সংগ্রাম করতে হলো। দিউইশেনই পাহাড়ের উপরে পরিশ্রম করে স্কুল খুললো, বাড়ি বাড়ি গিয়ে শিক্ষার্থী যোগাড় করলো। শিক্ষার্থীদের মধ্যে সবার বড় ১৪ বছরের কিশোরী আলতিনাই, চাচী বাঁকা চোখকে সামনে রেখেই সে তার লেলিনভক্ত মাষ্টার সাবের ক্লাসে আসা যাওয়া করতে লাগলো আর শিখতে লাগলো।
দিউইশেনের ধারণা আলতিনাই বড় হয়ে বড় ধরনের কিছু হতে পারবে তবে বাধ সাধলেন চাচী। আলতিনাইয়ের বিয়ের ব্যবস্থা করলেন তিনি। দিউইশেন নিজের রক্ত ঝরানোর পরও এই বিপদ থেকে আলতিনাইকে রক্ষা করতে পারলেন না। আলতিনাইকে পাশবিক নির্যাতনের স্বীকার হতেই হল। তবুও যে সে কি করে বৈজ্ঞানিক আলতিনাই সুলাইমানভা হয়ে উঠল সে গল্প নিয়েই এই বই- প্রথম শিক্ষক।
যা-কিছু স্মৃতিময় সেখানে মানুষের পদচিহ্ন চিরকাল কেন পড়ে থাকে না? দিউইশেন আর আমি যে-পথে ঐ পাহাড় থেকে হেঁটে ঘরে ফিরেছিলাম আজ যদি আমি তা খুঁজে পেতাম, তো বুক পেতে দিতাম সেই মাটির বুকে, মাষ্টার সাহেবের পদচিহ্ন চুমোয় চুমোয় ভরিয়ে দিতাম আমি। আমার জন্যে ঐ পথ- যত পথ আছে পৃথিবীতে তার মধ্যে সবচেয়ে মূল্যবান। কৃতজ্ঞ আমি সে-দিনের পৃথিবীর প্রতি...
~২৭ জুন, ২০২১
July 28, 2013
වසර ගණනාවකට පෙර(වයස අවු 10ක් වන්නට ඇත), පළමු වර කියවීමේදී මගේ සිත් ගත්තේ චරිත හා පරිසරය විස්තර කර තිබුණු ආකාරය යි. .
සරල ව කිවහොත්, කුරකුරේඋව තුළ වසමින් කතාව රස විඳීමි.
නමුත් මෙහි ඇති ගැඹුරු අරුත තේරුම් ගැනීමට හැකිවූයේ පසු කලෙක නැවත කියවූ පසු ය.
තරු 5ක් දෙමි. පුළුවන් නම් 10ක් වුනත් දිමට නොපැකිලෙමි.
සරල ව කිවහොත්, කුරකුරේඋව තුළ වසමින් කතාව රස විඳීමි.
නමුත් මෙහි ඇති ගැඹුරු අරුත තේරුම් ගැනීමට හැකිවූයේ පසු කලෙක නැවත කියවූ පසු ය.
තරු 5ක් දෙමි. පුළුවන් නම් 10ක් වුනත් දිමට නොපැකිලෙමි.
June 18, 2016
* Eskiden merkezi ve yerel yönetimlerle ilgili tüm idari işler sadece evraklar üzerinden yürütülürdü. Önemli belgelerimiz vişne rengi dosyalar içinde, metal dolaplarda kilitli olarak saklanırdı. Her bir dosyanın tek kopyası bulunduğundan, olası yangın tehlikelerine karşı metal dolapların üzerinde de "
Yangında İlk Kurtarılacaktır
" etiketi olurdu. Şayet ülkedeki atamaları yapan yetkili makamda olsaydım, Ferit Edgü'nün "Doğu Hikayeleri" ve "Hakkaride Bir Mevsim"i ile Chingiz Aitmatov'un "Öğretmen Duyşen"ini, doğuya ataması yapılan öğretmenlerin bavullarına koyar ve "
en umutsuz anlarda ilk başvurulacak kaynak
" olarak etiketlerdim.
** Fedakar bir komünist parti üyesinin, hiç kimsenin okuma-yazma bilmediği köyünde, çocuklara okuma yazma öğretme gayreti anlatılmış. Kendisi de okumakta güçlük çeken, hatta bazı harfleri çıkarmakta bile zorluk çeken Duyşen'in karşısında başka zorluklar da vardır elbette; çiftçilikten başka birşey bilmeyen köylülerin çıkardıkları engellerin, küçümseyici hal ve hareketlerin de üstesinden gelmek zorundadır.
*** Çocukların dünyasına bir damla ışık olabilmek uğruna Duyşen'in binbir güçlükle verdiği uğraş takdir edilesidir; ama bence gereğinden fazla fedakarlığa ve kahramanlığa yer verilmiş. Muhtemeldir ki Sovyet Rusya döneminde halkın eğitilmesi gerekliliğinin ve bu yolda verilen insanüstü gayretin halkta farkındalık uyandırması amaçlanmış. Tek üzücü nokta, kitapta anlatılan kız çocukların erken yaşta evlendirilmesi, okutulmaması gibi toplumsal sorunların aradan geçen onlarca yıla rağmen bizim coğrafyamızda hala varlığını bir şekilde sürdürüyor olması. İyi okumalar...
Her karanlık bulutta bir beyaz nokta bulunur." (kitaptan bir alıntı)
** Fedakar bir komünist parti üyesinin, hiç kimsenin okuma-yazma bilmediği köyünde, çocuklara okuma yazma öğretme gayreti anlatılmış. Kendisi de okumakta güçlük çeken, hatta bazı harfleri çıkarmakta bile zorluk çeken Duyşen'in karşısında başka zorluklar da vardır elbette; çiftçilikten başka birşey bilmeyen köylülerin çıkardıkları engellerin, küçümseyici hal ve hareketlerin de üstesinden gelmek zorundadır.
*** Çocukların dünyasına bir damla ışık olabilmek uğruna Duyşen'in binbir güçlükle verdiği uğraş takdir edilesidir; ama bence gereğinden fazla fedakarlığa ve kahramanlığa yer verilmiş. Muhtemeldir ki Sovyet Rusya döneminde halkın eğitilmesi gerekliliğinin ve bu yolda verilen insanüstü gayretin halkta farkındalık uyandırması amaçlanmış. Tek üzücü nokta, kitapta anlatılan kız çocukların erken yaşta evlendirilmesi, okutulmaması gibi toplumsal sorunların aradan geçen onlarca yıla rağmen bizim coğrafyamızda hala varlığını bir şekilde sürdürüyor olması. İyi okumalar...
Her karanlık bulutta bir beyaz nokta bulunur." (kitaptan bir alıntı)
May 10, 2024
ديوشن جندي رجع من الحرب الى قريته المنعزلة كوركوريو لكنه رجع مثقلا ومتأثرا بلينين وبروح الدولة السوفيتيتة الحديثة الناهضة لكنه في قرية اهلها لايعرفون الا رعي الغنم لايوجد فيهم من يعرف قراءة ولا كتابة ولايوجد بها مدرسة او بيت دين، زد على ذلك مشاعرهم الجبلية المتبدلة وزواج الاطفال في سن حديثة..
فقرر هو بنفسه ان يغير ذلك الواقع ان يكون المعلم الاول وان يبني مدرسته الخاصة به لكن هل ادمغة اهل قريته المتحجرة الذين لاعهد لهم بعلم سيكون من السهل اقناعهم؟وماذا سيكون مصيره واطفال القرية بعد مرور الزمن؟
هذا ليس كل الرواية انما هي لمحة بسيطة فقط
عيب الرواية ان قصتها مبتورة كانت ممكن تكون احسن من كدا لو الكاتب ركز مع الشخصيات اكتر وكمل حكاياتهم
ثاني عيب هو التر��مة التي لا اعرف حتى الآن من ترجمها، بها اخطاء كثيرة اخذت بعضا من روح النص فالرواية كلاسيكة شاعرية كانت تحتاج ترجمة وعبارات اكثر مرونة تنقل روحها ولكنها مقبولة ستتمكن من قراءة الرواية في النهاية..
ملحوظة :الرواية ليست 329 صفحة كما هو مكتوب انما 97 صفحة في نسختي من دار التقدم موسكو..
September 15, 2019
Αν δεν είστε φανατικοί αντικομμουνιστες θα το βρείτε θαυμάσιο. Μορφωστε τα παιδιά σας!
September 27, 2020
And may you find happiness in learning...
A deeply moving and haunting tale. It's better to read this story without knowing much about it and experience it yourself. Duishen (or The first teacher), a devotee of the Russian leader Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) embarks on a mission of opening a school and teaching children in a village where people are illiterate - they mock him; sneer at his ambitions. Still, he dreams of a bright future for his students.
And there's a young orphan girl, Altyani. She cherishes Duishen's kindness , loves and respect her first teacher.
Duishen dreams of sending her to a town to acquire education. He fights for her and sacrifices whatever he has.
Aitmatov is a master of creating deep human-relationships; that have no particular name but felt with heart; nurtured with selflessness and compassion.
There's a glimmer of hope and even even amidst hope, there lies sadness and longing. There's regret and things left unsaid - One is not always courageous enough to speak one's heart out. A story of selflessness and sacrifice. It's also about rebellion against the norm and ignorance . Altynai becomes locus of hope and aspirations; a vessel for the fulfillment of ambitions.
"Why can't we leave our footprints forever in places with precious memories for us? If I could find the path Duishen and I followed coming down from the mountains, I would prostrate myself on the ground and kiss my teacher's footprints. The path means more to me than all the roads in the world."
In the end, no one remembers or cares about the man who was the pioneer of education in the village.
That should have been the privilege of our first teacher, the first Communist in our village, Duishen. Of all the people there he had the greatest right to it. But everything was just the other way about.
A sad story; still, achingly inspiring.
A deeply moving and haunting tale. It's better to read this story without knowing much about it and experience it yourself. Duishen (or The first teacher), a devotee of the Russian leader Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) embarks on a mission of opening a school and teaching children in a village where people are illiterate - they mock him; sneer at his ambitions. Still, he dreams of a bright future for his students.
And there's a young orphan girl, Altyani. She cherishes Duishen's kindness , loves and respect her first teacher.
Duishen dreams of sending her to a town to acquire education. He fights for her and sacrifices whatever he has.
Aitmatov is a master of creating deep human-relationships; that have no particular name but felt with heart; nurtured with selflessness and compassion.
There's a glimmer of hope and even even amidst hope, there lies sadness and longing. There's regret and things left unsaid - One is not always courageous enough to speak one's heart out. A story of selflessness and sacrifice. It's also about rebellion against the norm and ignorance . Altynai becomes locus of hope and aspirations; a vessel for the fulfillment of ambitions.
"Why can't we leave our footprints forever in places with precious memories for us? If I could find the path Duishen and I followed coming down from the mountains, I would prostrate myself on the ground and kiss my teacher's footprints. The path means more to me than all the roads in the world."
In the end, no one remembers or cares about the man who was the pioneer of education in the village.
That should have been the privilege of our first teacher, the first Communist in our village, Duishen. Of all the people there he had the greatest right to it. But everything was just the other way about.
A sad story; still, achingly inspiring.
January 27, 2021
Djujšen è il primo maestro del villaggio, Kurkureu.
Altynaj Sulajmanovna è un’orfana maltrattata dagli zii.
Il visionario Djujšen raccoglie i bambini analfabeti e insegna loro a leggere e scrivere. E lo fa anche con Altynaj, accendendo in lei il desiderio della conoscenza.
In fondo, raccontare è come dipingere un quadro: “Ma io ancora non so se riuscirò a rendere attraverso i colori quella vita difficile, densa di lotta, i destini multiformi e gli umani dolori che ne hanno fatto parte.”
E non sempre si riesce a dire tutto. Non sempre si riesce a estrarre dai meandri della memoria quei particolari che rendano giustizia alla storia: “Non devo rovesciare questa tazza piena fino all’orlo, devo riuscire a portarla fino a voi, miei contemporanei, ma come farò? Perché non basta che la mia idea giunga sino a voi, deve diventare una nostra opera comune.“
“E allora mi dico: osserva, studia, scegli. Dipingi i pioppi di Djujšen e Altynaj, quei pioppi che amavi tanto da bambino anche se non conoscevi la loro storia. Descrivi il ragazzino abbronzato coi piedi nudi. È salito in alto in alto, e siede su un ramo del pioppo, e guarda con occhi incantati l’ignota lontananza.
Oppure intitola il tuo quadro Il primo maestro e dipingi, per esempio, questo momento: Djujšen che porta in braccio i bambinetti al di là del fiume, mentre un paio di uomini ottusi, coi malachaj di volpe, passano su cavalli selvaggi e ben pasciuti ridendo di lui.”
Una volta imbarcati nell’impresa non occorre altro che provarci, indipendentemente da quale sarà il risultato finale: “Dipingi un quadro che sia come il grido di Djujšen che Altynaj sente ancora risuonare, che invochi nel cuore di ogni uomo una risposta.
Tutto questo io mi dico. Mi dico tante di quelle cose, ma non tutte funzionano. Ancora adesso non so cosa dipingerò. Ma di una cosa sono assolutamente certo: ci proverò.”
Tra 3 e 4 stelle: la quarta l’ho messa per il finale molto bello!
Altynaj Sulajmanovna è un’orfana maltrattata dagli zii.
Il visionario Djujšen raccoglie i bambini analfabeti e insegna loro a leggere e scrivere. E lo fa anche con Altynaj, accendendo in lei il desiderio della conoscenza.
In fondo, raccontare è come dipingere un quadro: “Ma io ancora non so se riuscirò a rendere attraverso i colori quella vita difficile, densa di lotta, i destini multiformi e gli umani dolori che ne hanno fatto parte.”
E non sempre si riesce a dire tutto. Non sempre si riesce a estrarre dai meandri della memoria quei particolari che rendano giustizia alla storia: “Non devo rovesciare questa tazza piena fino all’orlo, devo riuscire a portarla fino a voi, miei contemporanei, ma come farò? Perché non basta che la mia idea giunga sino a voi, deve diventare una nostra opera comune.“
“E allora mi dico: osserva, studia, scegli. Dipingi i pioppi di Djujšen e Altynaj, quei pioppi che amavi tanto da bambino anche se non conoscevi la loro storia. Descrivi il ragazzino abbronzato coi piedi nudi. È salito in alto in alto, e siede su un ramo del pioppo, e guarda con occhi incantati l’ignota lontananza.
Oppure intitola il tuo quadro Il primo maestro e dipingi, per esempio, questo momento: Djujšen che porta in braccio i bambinetti al di là del fiume, mentre un paio di uomini ottusi, coi malachaj di volpe, passano su cavalli selvaggi e ben pasciuti ridendo di lui.”
Una volta imbarcati nell’impresa non occorre altro che provarci, indipendentemente da quale sarà il risultato finale: “Dipingi un quadro che sia come il grido di Djujšen che Altynaj sente ancora risuonare, che invochi nel cuore di ogni uomo una risposta.
Tutto questo io mi dico. Mi dico tante di quelle cose, ma non tutte funzionano. Ancora adesso non so cosa dipingerò. Ma di una cosa sono assolutamente certo: ci proverò.”
Tra 3 e 4 stelle: la quarta l’ho messa per il finale molto bello!
August 22, 2014
චිංගීස් අයිත්මාතව්ගේ Duishen නවකතාව දැදිගම වී රුද්රිගු විසින් “ගුරු ගීතය” ලෙස ඉතාමත්ම සුන්දර ලෙස පරිවර්තනය කරලා තියෙනවා. මේ පොත බොහෝ කාලයක් තිස්සේ ගුරුවරුන් සහ ගෝළයන් විසින් එකසේ රසවිඳි පොතක්.
රුසියන් විප්ලවයේ ආරම්භක කාලයේදී යුද හමුදාවේ යන්තම් අකුරු ලියන්නට හා කියවන්නට හැකිවූවන් පවා යොදා ගනිමින් අධ්යාපන විප්ලවයක් කළ අයුරු තමයි මේ පොතෙන් කියවෙන්නේ. සාර් වරුන් විසින් අනුකම්පා විරහිත ලෙස සූරා කෑ රුසියාව වගේ විශාල රටකට අධ්යාපනය ලබාදෙන එක සෝවියට් ආණ්ඩුවට කොතරම් අපහසු වුණාද යන්න මේ පොතෙන් මැනවින් පැහැදිලි වෙනවා.
මේ පොත සෝවියට් ආණ්ඩුව විසින් හුදෙක් ප්රචාරත්මක කෘතියක් ලෙස දොරට වැඩුවත් ඒක අපේ රටේ බොහෝ දෙනාගෙ ආත්මය බවට පත්වී තිබෙන්නේ අපේ රටේ දුයිෂෙන් වැනි ගුරුවරුන් තවමත් ඉන්න නිසා වෙන්න ඇති. ඒ වගේම අල්තිනායි වැනි මුල අමතක කරන ශිෂ්යාවනුත් ඇති පදමට ඉන්නවා. ඒත් අල්තිනායි ගැන පොතේ අවසානය තෙක්ම ඇතිවන්නේ දුකක් මිස තරහක් නොවෙයි. මේක තමයි බොහෝ හොඳ ගුරුවරුන්ගේ ඉරණම. කාලෙත් එක්ක ඔක්කොටම අමතක වෙලා යනවා.
අල්තිනායිගෙ සිතේ දුයිෂෙන් ගැනත්, දුයිෂෙන්ගේ සිතේ අල්තිනායි ගැනත් ගුරු ගෝල සබඳතාවට එහා ගියපු ප්රේමයක සේයාවක් සමහර තැන්වලදී පෙනුණත් ඒක මතුවෙන්න නොදී යටපත් කිරීමට රචකයා සමත්වෙලා තියෙනවා.
රුසියන් විප්ලවයේ ආරම්භක කාලයේදී යුද හමුදාවේ යන්තම් අකුරු ලියන්නට හා කියවන්නට හැකිවූවන් පවා යොදා ගනිමින් අධ්යාපන විප්ලවයක් කළ අයුරු තමයි මේ පොතෙන් කියවෙන්නේ. සාර් වරුන් විසින් අනුකම්පා විරහිත ලෙස සූරා කෑ රුසියාව වගේ විශාල රටකට අධ්යාපනය ලබාදෙන එක සෝවියට් ආණ්ඩුවට කොතරම් අපහසු වුණාද යන්න මේ පොතෙන් මැනවින් පැහැදිලි වෙනවා.
මේ පොත සෝවියට් ආණ්ඩුව විසින් හුදෙක් ප්රචාරත්මක කෘතියක් ලෙස දොරට වැඩුවත් ඒක අපේ රටේ බොහෝ දෙනාගෙ ආත්මය බවට පත්වී තිබෙන්නේ අපේ රටේ දුයිෂෙන් වැනි ගුරුවරුන් තවමත් ඉන්න නිසා වෙන්න ඇති. ඒ වගේම අල්තිනායි වැනි මුල අමතක කරන ශිෂ්යාවනුත් ඇති පදමට ඉන්නවා. ඒත් අල්තිනායි ගැන පොතේ අවසානය තෙක්ම ඇතිවන්නේ දුකක් මිස තරහක් නොවෙයි. මේක තමයි බොහෝ හොඳ ගුරුවරුන්ගේ ඉරණම. කාලෙත් එක්ක ඔක්කොටම අමතක වෙලා යනවා.
අල්තිනායිගෙ සිතේ දුයිෂෙන් ගැනත්, දුයිෂෙන්ගේ සිතේ අල්තිනායි ගැනත් ගුරු ගෝල සබඳතාවට එහා ගියපු ප්රේමයක සේයාවක් සමහර තැන්වලදී පෙනුණත් ඒක මතුවෙන්න නොදී යටපත් කිරීමට රචකයා සමත්වෙලා තියෙනවා.
October 16, 2020
அருமையான ருசியப் புதினம்.கல்வியே இச்சிறுப் படைப்பின் அடிநாதம்.
January 18, 2022
«خورشید هم گویا میدانست چرا من چنین سعادتمندم. بله، ایمان دارم که خورشید میدانست چرا من چنین سبک و آزاد میدوم. زیرا کار نیک کوچکی انجام داده بودم.»
October 4, 2024
L'EMANCIPAZIONE
Breve romanzo ambientato in Kirghizistan, nei primi anni del potere sovietico. La storia ruota attorno al giovane insegnante Duishen, incaricato di aprire la prima scuola del villaggio. Nonostante le difficoltà e l'ostilità della comunità, che vede l'istruzione come una minaccia ai valori tradizionali, Duishen si impegna a portare avanti la sua missione.
Il romanzo è anche la storia di Altynai, una bambina del villaggio che grazie a Duishen riesce a ricevere un'istruzione e a immaginare una vita diversa da quella destinata alle donne della sua epoca. Il tema centrale è il conflitto tra modernità e tradizione, nonché l'importanza dell'educazione come strumento di emancipazione. Con un linguaggio semplice e poetico, Aitmatov esplora i cambiamenti sociali e le speranze legate alla rivoluzione culturale nel contesto sovietico.
L'opera mette in luce sia la passione che i sacrifici di coloro che hanno creduto nella trasformazione della società attraverso l'istruzione, rendendo la storia di Duishen un simbolo dell'idealismo rivoluzionario, al di là dell'ideologia comunista di sottofondo.
Breve romanzo ambientato in Kirghizistan, nei primi anni del potere sovietico. La storia ruota attorno al giovane insegnante Duishen, incaricato di aprire la prima scuola del villaggio. Nonostante le difficoltà e l'ostilità della comunità, che vede l'istruzione come una minaccia ai valori tradizionali, Duishen si impegna a portare avanti la sua missione.
Il romanzo è anche la storia di Altynai, una bambina del villaggio che grazie a Duishen riesce a ricevere un'istruzione e a immaginare una vita diversa da quella destinata alle donne della sua epoca. Il tema centrale è il conflitto tra modernità e tradizione, nonché l'importanza dell'educazione come strumento di emancipazione. Con un linguaggio semplice e poetico, Aitmatov esplora i cambiamenti sociali e le speranze legate alla rivoluzione culturale nel contesto sovietico.
L'opera mette in luce sia la passione che i sacrifici di coloro che hanno creduto nella trasformazione della società attraverso l'istruzione, rendendo la storia di Duishen un simbolo dell'idealismo rivoluzionario, al di là dell'ideologia comunista di sottofondo.
April 25, 2012
I don't know to which "genre" this short story belongs. I was tempted to label it "romance", but then I didn't. And why bother? It can belong to any genre, that doesn't make any difference. The crucial thing here is, I read it, and I liked it for no clear reason.
In fact, the story is too predictable, too short, too simple. The ending (the painter's talking to the readers) was awkward. Still, I liked it. It's funny that I didn't like the excerpt in our textbook back in secondary school. I was 14, or 15? I remember sitting in the next-to-last row, thinking of everything but the lesson, while pretending that I was listening to the teacher very closely. I hated the description parts the most. The maple trees? I didn't see why they're soooooo special to play a role in a story. Now at 20, I could never have guessed that the parts I now enjoy most, are the description about those same boring maple trees.
How greatly one can change...
In fact, the story is too predictable, too short, too simple. The ending (the painter's talking to the readers) was awkward. Still, I liked it. It's funny that I didn't like the excerpt in our textbook back in secondary school. I was 14, or 15? I remember sitting in the next-to-last row, thinking of everything but the lesson, while pretending that I was listening to the teacher very closely. I hated the description parts the most. The maple trees? I didn't see why they're soooooo special to play a role in a story. Now at 20, I could never have guessed that the parts I now enjoy most, are the description about those same boring maple trees.
How greatly one can change...
July 28, 2019
Another little story that touched me deeply. I don't know what category this will fall if ever it comes to that but I like to think of it as 'untold emotions'. Altheenai managed to disappoint me and pissed me off at the end but before it came to that, this tiny book touched so many other aspects such as love, compassion, selflessness and deep rooted emotions.
Forget everything about the communism, the core is relevant even for today. I think we need more people like Duishen today more than ever..
Forget everything about the communism, the core is relevant even for today. I think we need more people like Duishen today more than ever..
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June 10, 2020Bir öğretmenin fedakarlığı bu kadar güzel anlatılabilirdi. Altınay'ın öğretmenine verdiği kıymet ve saygı çok güzel işlenmiş, kısa olmasına rağmen yoğun ve sımsıcak bir öykü.
July 9, 2023
Around the World Reading Challenge: KYRGYZSTAN
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4.5 rounded down
A short but impressive and impactful story that takes place in a small Kirghiz village after the Russian Revolution, when a young communist comes to educate the children of resistant rural villagers. The pacing was excellent, and the story, though simple, was quite moving.
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4.5 rounded down
A short but impressive and impactful story that takes place in a small Kirghiz village after the Russian Revolution, when a young communist comes to educate the children of resistant rural villagers. The pacing was excellent, and the story, though simple, was quite moving.
June 13, 2020
Bir öğretmen olarak adı çok dikkatimi çekmişti, okuduğum ilk Aytmatov kitabı oldu. Orijinal adı "Pervyy uchitel" ve aynı isimde çekilmiş, kitaptan uyarlama bir filmi de var, 1965 seneli yonetmeni ise Andrei Konchalovsky. Henüz izlemedim ama izlemeyi düşünüyorum. Wikipedia sayfasına bakınca kitapla aynı gitmediğini fark ettim.
Kitap komünist bir parti üyesinin bir köye tamamen kendi çabaları ile okul yapıp, kendi pek bir şey bilmediği halde öğrencilere bir şeyler öğretme çabasını, ve öğrenme arzusu ile yanıp tutuşan öksüz ve yetim bir kızın hikayesini anlatıyor. Konu aslında alışık olduğumuz, defalarca işlenmiş bir konu, ama yazım stili ve çevirisi çok etkileyici. Bir oturuşta okunur rahatlıkla. Çok duygusal bir hikaye, özellikle doğuda yaşayan öğretmen ve öğrencilerin kesinlikle okuması gereken bir kitap olduğunu düşünüyorum. Kitap 1924-1950 arası Kırgızistan'inda geçiyor ama benim çocukluğumda okuduğum veya duyduğum doğuda geçen hikayelerle maalesef tamamen aynı. Aradan bu kadar sene geçmiş olmasına rağmen bu olayların son bulmamış olması insanı çok üzüyor, çözüm kesinlikle okumak, ve asla vazgeçmemek.
Kitap komünist bir parti üyesinin bir köye tamamen kendi çabaları ile okul yapıp, kendi pek bir şey bilmediği halde öğrencilere bir şeyler öğretme çabasını, ve öğrenme arzusu ile yanıp tutuşan öksüz ve yetim bir kızın hikayesini anlatıyor. Konu aslında alışık olduğumuz, defalarca işlenmiş bir konu, ama yazım stili ve çevirisi çok etkileyici. Bir oturuşta okunur rahatlıkla. Çok duygusal bir hikaye, özellikle doğuda yaşayan öğretmen ve öğrencilerin kesinlikle okuması gereken bir kitap olduğunu düşünüyorum. Kitap 1924-1950 arası Kırgızistan'inda geçiyor ama benim çocukluğumda okuduğum veya duyduğum doğuda geçen hikayelerle maalesef tamamen aynı. Aradan bu kadar sene geçmiş olmasına rağmen bu olayların son bulmamış olması insanı çok üzüyor, çözüm kesinlikle okumak, ve asla vazgeçmemek.
February 24, 2015
A must read for Pakistani readers , about the education of girls and forced marriage
June 23, 2022
ঘটনাটা রুশ বিপ্লবের পরের। লেলিন তখন এক মহান মানুষ ঘরে ঘরে। তাঁর দলের লোকের বিভিন্ন জায়গায় ছড়িয়ে ছিটিয়ে দেশ উন্নত করার চেষ্টায় লিপ্ত। সেই ব্রতের ব্রতী হয়ে এসেছিলে দেউইশেন। তার দ্বায়িত্ব পড়েছিল,একটা দরিদ্র কৃষক পল্লীর শিশুদের শিক্ষিত করার।
শিক্ষার মহান উদ্দেশ্য নিয়ে দেউইশেন কৃষক পল্লীতে পা দিয়ে ছিলেন,কিন্তু সেখানে এসে দেখলেন বিপদে ভরপুর চারপাশ। যাদের নিয়ে কাজ করবেন, সেই কৃষক কূল তাকে সমর্থন করছে না। তারা চাইছে না তাদের সন্তান শিক্ষিত হোক।
বড়রা না চাইলে ও দেউইশেনের পক্ষ নিয়েছিল শিশুরা। তারা তাদের মাস্টার সা'বকে ভালোবাসত। তাই দিউইশেন তাদের নিয়ে শুরু করলেন কাজ। পড়াতে লাগলে শিশুদের। এই শিশুদের একজন আলতিনাই। এই গল্পটা শিশু আলতিনাই আর তার মাস্টার সাহেবের।
বই টা দারুণ। অনুবাদ ও সাবলীল ছিল,পড়ে আরাম পেয়েছি। এমন সব দারুণ বই অনুবাদ আকারে প্রকাশ করার জন্য প্রকাশক এবং অনুবাদককে অসংখ্য ধন্যবাদ। এসব বই অনুবাদ হওয়া খুব দরকার।
শিক্ষার মহান উদ্দেশ্য নিয়ে দেউইশেন কৃষক পল্লীতে পা দিয়ে ছিলেন,কিন্তু সেখানে এসে দেখলেন বিপদে ভরপুর চারপাশ। যাদের নিয়ে কাজ করবেন, সেই কৃষক কূল তাকে সমর্থন করছে না। তারা চাইছে না তাদের সন্তান শিক্ষিত হোক।
বড়রা না চাইলে ও দেউইশেনের পক্ষ নিয়েছিল শিশুরা। তারা তাদের মাস্টার সা'বকে ভালোবাসত। তাই দিউইশেন তাদের নিয়ে শুরু করলেন কাজ। পড়াতে লাগলে শিশুদের। এই শিশুদের একজন আলতিনাই। এই গল্পটা শিশু আলতিনাই আর তার মাস্টার সাহেবের।
বই টা দারুণ। অনুবাদ ও সাবলীল ছিল,পড়ে আরাম পেয়েছি। এমন সব দারুণ বই অনুবাদ আকারে প্রকাশ করার জন্য প্রকাশক এবং অনুবাদককে অসংখ্য ধন্যবাদ। এসব বই অনুবাদ হওয়া খুব দরকার।
September 1, 2014
I got a copy of Chingiz Aitmatov’s Duishen novel as an e-book through the Facebook Group පොත් කියවන අය. I read the 35-page e-book within a day. It was easier to read as I had already read its Sinhala translation, ගුරු ගීතය. Aitmatov’s Duishen is basically a soviet propaganda novel but it allures any reader irrespective of race or creed as its theme, the emotional bond of a hardworking teacher and a talented student is universal.
Duishen, an ex-revolutionary, comes to his village after the revolution and the revolutionary Soviet government has entrusted him with the task of starting a new school without providing any facility except a meager salary for him. He explains the importance of educating the children in the village to their parents but fails to convince them. They are ignorant busy farmers and don’t understand the value of education as the only option they see to succeed in life is farming.
Having been snubbed by the villagers for his request to help him build a school, he embarks on a solitary task of converting an abandoned stable into a school. His only admirer is a teenage girl called Altynai who helps him dropping cow dung as fuel in his stable in secret one day. It is from this girl’s perspective that the book has been written. She becomes an immediate beneficiary of the school as she is very smart in learning. But her guardian aunt and uncle (Altynai is an orphan) loath the school and only let her go to school after Duishen uses force with the revolutionary government’s documents.
After becoming a great admirer of young teacher Duishen, Altynai almost falls in love with him but he treats her only as a loyal student. His only dream is to see Altynai succeed in education and become a big academic one day.
In the meantime Altynai’s guardians sell her to a middle-aged rascal of a man who has daughters older than Altynai. He already has a wife and Altynai is raped by him in his hut while she was only 15. She becomes a concubine of this cad. Before being raped, Duishen fights this man and his helpers to save Altynai but he fails as he is overpowered by the group.
I think I have told you more than enough. The rest rests in your hands now. Download or buy the book and read it for yourself.
There is also a movie based on this book called The First teacher but it is extremely rare to find.
Duishen, an ex-revolutionary, comes to his village after the revolution and the revolutionary Soviet government has entrusted him with the task of starting a new school without providing any facility except a meager salary for him. He explains the importance of educating the children in the village to their parents but fails to convince them. They are ignorant busy farmers and don’t understand the value of education as the only option they see to succeed in life is farming.
Having been snubbed by the villagers for his request to help him build a school, he embarks on a solitary task of converting an abandoned stable into a school. His only admirer is a teenage girl called Altynai who helps him dropping cow dung as fuel in his stable in secret one day. It is from this girl’s perspective that the book has been written. She becomes an immediate beneficiary of the school as she is very smart in learning. But her guardian aunt and uncle (Altynai is an orphan) loath the school and only let her go to school after Duishen uses force with the revolutionary government’s documents.
After becoming a great admirer of young teacher Duishen, Altynai almost falls in love with him but he treats her only as a loyal student. His only dream is to see Altynai succeed in education and become a big academic one day.
In the meantime Altynai’s guardians sell her to a middle-aged rascal of a man who has daughters older than Altynai. He already has a wife and Altynai is raped by him in his hut while she was only 15. She becomes a concubine of this cad. Before being raped, Duishen fights this man and his helpers to save Altynai but he fails as he is overpowered by the group.
I think I have told you more than enough. The rest rests in your hands now. Download or buy the book and read it for yourself.
There is also a movie based on this book called The First teacher but it is extremely rare to find.
June 11, 2025
Based on the few things I knew about Aitmatov's work before reading this short story, I found it to be surprisingly political. It advocates (female) education and depicts the horrors of forced marriage in an effective way that I didn't expect from it. It may be a bit too positive about Soviet rule - even though it might have brought some positive change to small Khirghiz towns - and the relationship between the teacher and the young woman was described a bit too melodramatically for me, but it was overall still an enjoyable read.
April 9, 2024
Aytmatov kitaplarında kendinizi olay örgüsünü okur gibi değil, olayların içinde gibi hissediyorsunuz.
Bana göre bu kitap, öğretmenlik yapacak her bireyin okuması gereken eserlerden biri. Bir öğretmenin göreve başladığı yerde yaşadığı zorluklar deyip geçilebileceği gibi, bir dönemin, o dönemde yaşamış insanların eğitime, kadınlara, her şeyden önemlisi hayata bakış açısına dair önemli tespitler barındırıyor.
Bana göre bu kitap, öğretmenlik yapacak her bireyin okuması gereken eserlerden biri. Bir öğretmenin göreve başladığı yerde yaşadığı zorluklar deyip geçilebileceği gibi, bir dönemin, o dönemde yaşamış insanların eğitime, kadınlara, her şeyden önemlisi hayata bakış açısına dair önemli tespitler barındırıyor.
August 31, 2020
“If there is one single book on education which will make you weep, this is it.”
Ah, what a lovely novella! This small novel contain a lot more power than many robust novels. I would strongly recommend this book to any book lover who is open to world literature. It's magnificence lies in it's fluency, humanity, nostalgia and celebration of ordinary people's efforts. It is one of the rare gems one can always cherish and look back to it again and again.
This story is about a young girl, Altynai, who lives in Kirghiz and wants to go to school. Duishen, is a young man and communist who decides to start a school and educate the children. He goes to their houses and collects them and brings them to school every day. He becomes very special to Altynai, and a special relationship develops between them.
The story revolves around this illiterate teacher (Duishen), his student (Altynai) and the two poplar trees standing tall like forming a link between the past and the present.
I love how this story of just 35 pages (read the English translated version off a downloaded PDF), has made a lasting impression on my mind. There were passages which pierced my heart. Beautiful.❤
"Yes, there will be winter, there will be cold, there will be snowstorms, but then there will be spring again..."
"Why can't we leave our footprints forever in places filled with precious memories for us?"
"The memories of childhood are particularly precious."
"Children, if only you knew what a beautiful future awaits you...!"
"There, at their foot, I left my childhood, like a broken piece of green magic glass..."
Ah, what a lovely novella! This small novel contain a lot more power than many robust novels. I would strongly recommend this book to any book lover who is open to world literature. It's magnificence lies in it's fluency, humanity, nostalgia and celebration of ordinary people's efforts. It is one of the rare gems one can always cherish and look back to it again and again.
This story is about a young girl, Altynai, who lives in Kirghiz and wants to go to school. Duishen, is a young man and communist who decides to start a school and educate the children. He goes to their houses and collects them and brings them to school every day. He becomes very special to Altynai, and a special relationship develops between them.
The story revolves around this illiterate teacher (Duishen), his student (Altynai) and the two poplar trees standing tall like forming a link between the past and the present.
I love how this story of just 35 pages (read the English translated version off a downloaded PDF), has made a lasting impression on my mind. There were passages which pierced my heart. Beautiful.❤
"Yes, there will be winter, there will be cold, there will be snowstorms, but then there will be spring again..."
"Why can't we leave our footprints forever in places filled with precious memories for us?"
"The memories of childhood are particularly precious."
"Children, if only you knew what a beautiful future awaits you...!"
"There, at their foot, I left my childhood, like a broken piece of green magic glass..."
July 28, 2020
Bỏ qua các yếu tố tuyên truyền, thì đây cũng là một câu chuyện với nhiều nút thắt xuyên suốt ở bối cảnh Soviet bấy giờ. Thời kỳ chiến tranh, cộng thêm những hủ tục khiến cho con người từ thế hệ này sang thế hệ khác đi vào một lối mòn, nhưng đã có những người tiên phong như người thầy Đuysen đã góp phần xoá bỏ những hủ tục, mang kiến thức đến cho các em nhỏ, không quản ngại khó khăn. Phải có một lòng vị tha, lòng thương người thật lớn lao và hoài bão sư phạm lớn lắm mới có thể làm được điều đó. Không phải là một câu chuyện cổ tích đâu, vì ngoài đời vẫn có những người thầy như vậy.
Những phần truyện tưởng như không liên quan mấy lại nối với nhau bởi người thầy Đuysen và hai cây phong. Tác giả khá thành công khi xây dựng hình tượng một con người sĩ diện, tự ái, và dần dần thay đổi thế giới quan sau một loạt các biến cố. Những phần sau là một chuyện tình éo le, và mình cũng ko có thương xót gì gã Ilyax đâu, nhưng cái kết này có lẽ là hợp lý nhất, mặc dù nó buồn, nhưng trong cái buồn ấy có một tia sáng lấp lánh rất đẹp.
Những phần truyện tưởng như không liên quan mấy lại nối với nhau bởi người thầy Đuysen và hai cây phong. Tác giả khá thành công khi xây dựng hình tượng một con người sĩ diện, tự ái, và dần dần thay đổi thế giới quan sau một loạt các biến cố. Những phần sau là một chuyện tình éo le, và mình cũng ko có thương xót gì gã Ilyax đâu, nhưng cái kết này có lẽ là hợp lý nhất, mặc dù nó buồn, nhưng trong cái buồn ấy có một tia sáng lấp lánh rất đẹp.
July 12, 2012
قصة قصيرة بعاطفة بحجم السماء.. جندي عائد من الحرب الى قريته، يقرر ان يعلم صغارها على الرغم من سخرية الجميع..
وبعد سنين
تعود الدكتوره الجامعية التيناي الى مسقط راسها:
ويمر خلال الاحتفال ذكر العجوز ديوجين الذي جاء على التو حاملا برقيات للقرية، فتنتفض الدكتورة ألتيناي و تسأل مضيفها ـ الراوي ـ: (عن أي ديوجين يتحدثون؟
ـ انه ساعي البريد في الكولخوز يا ألتيناي سليمانوفا، أتعرفينه؟)
بدأ القلق والتوتر يظهران على ألتيناي.. فتبدأ حكاية اخرى..
وبعد سنين
تعود الدكتوره الجامعية التيناي الى مسقط راسها:
ويمر خلال الاحتفال ذكر العجوز ديوجين الذي جاء على التو حاملا برقيات للقرية، فتنتفض الدكتورة ألتيناي و تسأل مضيفها ـ الراوي ـ: (عن أي ديوجين يتحدثون؟
ـ انه ساعي البريد في الكولخوز يا ألتيناي سليمانوفا، أتعرفينه؟)
بدأ القلق والتوتر يظهران على ألتيناي.. فتبدأ حكاية اخرى..
July 17, 2016
"Bazen insanın, sırtından da baksan yüreğinde olup bitenleri kavrayabilirsin."
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Aytmatov kendi eşsiz tarzını oluşturmuş çok yönlü bir yazar. Her hikayesi eşsiz bir tablo gibi. Baktıkça bakasın, okudukça okuyasın geliyor.
Hikayelerinin zenginliği ise bence, yoruma açık olmalarından kaynaklanıyor.
Aşk, sevgi, bağlılık ve tabiat sevgisi o kadar canlı tasvir ediliyor ki, hayran kalmamak mümkün değil.
Bu hikayesi çok kısaydı ama çok güzeldi .
Değişik duyguları iç içe yaşattı.
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Aytmatov kendi eşsiz tarzını oluşturmuş çok yönlü bir yazar. Her hikayesi eşsiz bir tablo gibi. Baktıkça bakasın, okudukça okuyasın geliyor.
Hikayelerinin zenginliği ise bence, yoruma açık olmalarından kaynaklanıyor.
Aşk, sevgi, bağlılık ve tabiat sevgisi o kadar canlı tasvir ediliyor ki, hayran kalmamak mümkün değil.
Bu hikayesi çok kısaydı ama çok güzeldi .
Değişik duyguları iç içe yaşattı.
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