Biography of Shortanbai қanayuly
Although you are full or hungry, take care of your honor, my people. Having lost his conscience - despite the plight of the people, Schortanbai still does not lose hope and calls: Kazakh sons, unite, do not lose faith in God! Fight for life while free from prison downs. Here, fate reduces it with the famous biy of Zhangutta Botantayev, a contemporary of Kunanbay's father Abay.
Filled by the rebellious spirit, the poetry of the Shortanbay awakens the region. A galaxy of political and public figures of the Kazakh people grows on his protest verses. This is a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Empire, chairman of the Alash autonomy Alikhan Bukeikhan, scientist linguist, enlightener Akhmet Baytursynov, author of the manifest “Wake up, Kazakh!
Shortanbai Canayula died in the year, was buried in the village of Aksu-Ayuly Altek-Sarymovsky volost of the Karkaralinsky district of the Semipalatinsk province now of the Shetsky district of the Karaganda region. After the death of the poet, the official power became interested in his work. Akyn’s works were also included in the compiled S. Mukanov and K. Bekhozhin, a reader in Kazakh literature in the year, was published in Esmagambet Ismailov “Kazakh Soviet Literature”, where an objective assessment of the work of Shortanbay Canayula was given.
This was the response of the Soviet public and literary critics, who considered the short -playing propagandist of the dogm of Islam and feudal antiquity, the founder of the reactionary direction in Kazakh literature, called the "era of sorrow". The study of E. Ismailov attracted the close attention of the apologists of Soviet ideology. Ismailov was accused of propaganda of bourgeois-nationalist ideology.
In June, at the XI Plenum of the Board of the Writers' Union, Alexander Fadeev fell with crushing criticism on the book of Esmagambet Ismailov “Kazakh Soviet Literature”, which determined the future fate of the professor. According to Fadeev, it “idealizes the feudal, Khan period of the history of Kazakhstan ... Khan, feudal lords and thieves are filed as heroes of the national liberation struggle, and the Khan massacre is depicted as the struggle for the creation of the Kazakh state.
The author idealizes the singers who sang the exploits of the khans, and passes this as a "heroic period of Kazakh literature." The literature of the time when Kazakhstan has become part of the Russian Empire, the author calls the literature of the “era of sorrow” ... ”On November 6, the researcher of the work of Shortanbai Kanayuly, the outstanding Kazakh scientist-litheate esmagambet Ismailov was convicted of 25 years.
He was released 3 years later, during the Khrushchev "thaw." The poetry of Shortanbai is now acute and relevant: it beats human vices, advocates the preservation of native lands, protects moral values and freedom. Shortanbai lived a hard life with a sorrow about free days, but also with a hope for the future of the Kazakh people. Years have passed, empires collapsed during this period, people died of hunger and cold, the volleys of world wars died down, but the rebellious spirit of the poet-citizen to this day lives in the Kazakh people.