Novel
Цаг төрийн үймээн
Not translated into English
Donrovyn Namdag · 1960
Synopsis
The novel is set in the Mongolia of the Bogd Khan, at the beginning of the twentieth century, when the country is emerging from Manchu rule. It depicts the political situation of this state, the life of the people and the ideas then circulating among them. Among its characters, Oyuundari has been compared by Mongolian critics and press to a real woman of that generation, D. Pagmadulam.
Context
The novel appeared in 1960. In 1994, cinema took it up with Төрийн сүлд өршөө; in 2023, T. Enebish studied, in the journal Mongol Kenkyū, the way the book and the film depict D. Pagmadulam. Its author, who came from the theatre, had behind him plays, operas and narratives, and he later wrote a second novel in Moscow. The book forms the third volume of the author's works reissued in 2021 by Internom.
Who it is for
A long novel in Mongolian, with no French translation; a few points of reference on the Bogd Khan regime help in following it.
Prizes and reception
State Prize in 1962, the first awarded to a novel according to a Mongolian biography; regarded by its publisher as a major Mongolian novel of the twentieth century.
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