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Шер / Тұңғышбай Әл-Тарази. – Алматы : Өнер 21-ғасыр ҚҚ, 2012. – ISBN 978-601-209-216-5.

Author
Тұңғышбай Әл-Тарази
Publisher
Өнер 21-ғасыр ҚҚ
Year of publication
2012
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Kazakh
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

The 21st century is a century that turns a person's inner world inside out. Civilisation, spreading across the whole planet, lays bare the inner spiritual depths of every human being and weighs his truth by a different measure. In this regard, the burden falling on figures of art in particular is immense. They must reconsider their past life experience and artistic treasures anew, synthesise and re-summarise them in keeping with the foundations of world development, and present them to the new generation in an entirely different quality. This is the demand of the age. This is the fourth book by the outstanding theatre and film actor, director, People's Artist of Kazakhstan, laureate of the State Prize and the Prize of the Youth Union of the Republic of Kazakhstan, laureate of the international Zhambyl and Makhambet prizes, Candidate of Art History, and Higher Attestation Commission professor Tungyshbai Kadyruly Zhamankulov. This book by Tungyshbai al-Tarazi (Zhamankulov), already well known to Kazakh readers through his earlier books "NAZ" (2000), "SÖZ" Volume 1 (2008) and "SÖZ" Volume 2 (2008), is offered here under the title "SHER" and consists mainly of a collection of his articles previously published in the press. The book is made up of two sections - "Behind the Curtain" and "In Front of the Curtain". The first section continues the scholarly actor's earlier theoretical research and his own free-flowing reflections, while the second brings together interviews in which he attempts to lift the veil on the backstage side of the theatre, hidden from the spectator's eye on both sides of the curtain. The book also includes his one-act drama "The Flame Fanned by the Wind", which he translated earlier for his students' diploma work. The language of the book is rich, and the author's judgements are bold. His own views as a stage personality and his approach to portraying the widely known images of his colleagues are distinguished by an original depth of insight and taste. This book has much to say to a reader who wishes to learn about and reflect on the intriguing yet difficult lives of people of art. We believe that a thoughtful reader will be able to weigh and judge for themselves, by their own understanding, the truth and falsehood of life and art so abundantly presented in this work by an outstanding theatre figure, with its unconventional, original judgements that do not fit the usual mould. In places, his articles and interviews flash with the author's uncompromising, passionate thoughts about his own era, his contemporaries, and present-day cinema and stage art. This, it seems, must be the distinctive character inherent in any figure in the arts.

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