Abstract:

Today, the process of considering the category of concepts in foreign cognitive literature in artistic works is also relevant and important in the literary studies of Kazakhstan. The concept “Eternal nation” is one of the national artistic concepts that have a long history of formation, development and modernization in the Kazakh literature. It is believed that the etymology of the concept “Eternal nation” in the historical and literary-cognitive researches has started in the texts of the ancient Turkic monuments such as “Bilge kagan”, “Tonykuk”, “Kul Tigin” and others that belong to the VI-VIII centuries, and according to some ancient sources it is thought to have begun in much more later epochs. The novel “Mangitas” (“Eternal Stone”) by writer Tursynkhan Zakenuly contains a system of individual authoring images, symbols, metaphors, equations, a lot of figurative devices and etc., which create an artistic association on the concept of “Eternal nation”. According to the artistic decision of the author in the novel, the concept of “Eternal nation” is explained with the help of the conditional and figurative thoughts that the material and spiritual heritage of the nation belong to the nation till the end of the universe set by the Creator and they should be eternal. The implementation of the national, Turkic values and figurative system of characters in this novel is a representation of the concept of “Eternal nation”.

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