“The Temptation of Fraga” is a story by Maurice Simashko dedicated to the classic of Turkmen poetry Makhtumkuli . It was first published in 1960 in the magazine New World .
| The Temptation of Fraga | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Story |
| Author | Simashko, Maurice Davidovich |
| Date of first publication | 1960 |
Criticism and reviews
As the author of the preface to the collection of works by Maurice Simashko, published in 1983 by the publishing house of Zhazusha , Z. Kedrin, notes that this story deepens the figurative study of the traditions of humanism and nationality in the history of the Middle East . [1] At the same time, according to Kedrina, the author, drawing the dialectics of Makhtumkuli’s character, creates an ideological and aesthetic basis for his own awareness and depiction of the progressive forces and movements of the past, learns to look at the world through his heroes. The author tries to portray the character of his heroes not by pulling them to the present, whitening or denigrating the figures of distant times , but due to the depth of the disclosure of the historical confrontation that was in reality and the clash of social ideas and individual characters in it. To do this, he makes the reader accept and feel the psychology of man and society of those distant times, not as an exotic given, but as a real life that took place in the past. [one]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Maurice Simashko. "Favorites". Publishing house "Zhazushi", Alma-Ata, 1983. Foreword by Z. Kedrina, p. 7 (circulation of 100 thousand copies, artist E. Sidorkin)