He was best known for his works such as Jamilya and Farewell, Gulsary, but his most enduring masterpiece was The Day That Lasts More Than a Hundred Days, a classic preaching universal human values while exploring simultaneously both a small world of Central Asian desert inhabitants in parallel and a space odyssey to a fictional alien planet.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Obituary: The day that lasted more than a hundred years
Yesterday, one of the great Turkic authors of our times, but also a giant Russian-language writer, a classic of the late Soviet literature, Chinghiz Aitmatov (b. 12 December, 1928 - d. 10 June, 2008) passed away at the age of 79.
He was best known for his works such as Jamilya and Farewell, Gulsary, but his most enduring masterpiece was The Day That Lasts More Than a Hundred Days, a classic preaching universal human values while exploring simultaneously both a small world of Central Asian desert inhabitants in parallel and a space odyssey to a fictional alien planet.
He was best known for his works such as Jamilya and Farewell, Gulsary, but his most enduring masterpiece was The Day That Lasts More Than a Hundred Days, a classic preaching universal human values while exploring simultaneously both a small world of Central Asian desert inhabitants in parallel and a space odyssey to a fictional alien planet.
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