Poetry
Armugʻon
Not translated into English
Elbek · 1921
Synopsis
The first book by its author, a collection of eighteen fables in verse. Animals speak in them, quarrel and deceive one another, and each piece, beneath its humour, carries a lesson. The poet takes up an ancient form, nourished by the oral tradition he was collecting in the villages at the same time, and turns it towards schoolchildren, whom he also wants to teach to love their language.
Context
The collection appeared in 1921, when its author was taking part in the Chigʻatoy gurungi, the circle founded by Fitrat to reform writing and the literary language; it was reissued in 1923, thoroughly revised. The fables are written for children, but beneath the humour they carry a social and political meaning: in one, a horse asks man to help it chase off an ox, and ends up saddled and bridled. Uzbek critics regard its author as the one who reopened the fable genre in modern Uzbek literature.
Who it is for
In Uzbek, with no French version. Short pieces, intended first for children. It is better to know that the fable then served to say what direct poetry could not say.
Prizes and reception
It earned its author a reputation as a poet for young people, and several of his fables have been included in anthologies.
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