Abdizhamil Karimuly Nurpeisov

One of the pages of A. Nurpeisov's journalism is the current policy. Articles, sketches, essays written by the writer in recent years have been taken together in one volume called "Raising up our holy" and in 1996 it was published. The work is written in Russian. It was written in this language probably because many of rising problems devoted to Russian, the world public. If the title of the book translated into the Kazakh language it will mean "honor", "respect of spiritual values" ("Қasietіңdі қadіrle"). This is the title of an article included into the book. The article itself was devoted to the Kazakh youth who participated in the uprising in December 1986. It was published in the newspaper "Pravda" during the period of the Red Empire's strong anger. Though not all the pictures of the event could reveal, but the writer has raised a number of problems. The author writes: How long will greedy careerists hidden at the back of the Party cards dive their hands into one's pocket and head the country?

Nurpeisov's skills in the art of aitys, pamphlet not only shows one of the facets of his talent, but also proves the high level of modern journalism. For example, November 1, 1990, in the newspaper "Izvestia" a famous article "How we can develop Russia" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was published. Nurpeisov replying to it in the article "Own and the other's pain" completely criticizes Solzhenitsyn's article, quotes and produces arguments. Solzhenitsyn is a world-famous polemicist, writer. He proved it well in the "Gulag Archipelago", and in his other works, in which he argues against the communist ideology. The Kazakh writer makes pressure on his sore "if I'm not true, who is true then."

In 1985 he was given the honorary title "People's Writer of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic".

In 1979 he published his essays at the Library of the Journal "Spark" "The Land of Blue Lakes" ("Kөgіldіr kөlder өlkesі"), in 1985 "The Legend of Akbiday". at the publishing house "Zhazushy". This is the benefit of Nurpeisov's daily life. He has always been sensitive to the people's life. His essay "Auten's Thoughts" has won the first award of "the Literary newspaper".

In 1972 a set of writer's literary criticisms and essays "Reflection" ("Толғау") was published. Later it was enlarged under the title "The heart was full of songs". In 1996, the new articles, sketches and essays were included into the book "Raising up our holy" ("Қasietіңdіқadіrle").

In 1971, in the library "Bibliotheca of the World Literature" by the publishing house "Fiction" in Moscow the epic novel by M. Auszov "Abai's Way" was published in two volumes. A. Nurpeisov, who wrote the foreword to it, starts as follows: "It's not easy to write about Mukhtar Auezov." A man of outstanding personality, great word-painter M. Auezov was introduced by him to the Soviet readers and foreign audience in full force and effect.

Since 1964, for many years he had been engaged in creative activities only, during the market time he organized an international Kazakh PEN Club and was appointed to its presidency. In 2000, he started publishing the magazine "Tan Sholpan" under the auspices of the PEN club. For many years he had been a chairman of the board of editors of one and the same literary and social magazine.

These words of the writer explain why the novel The Blood and Sweat was written. The trilogy The Blood and Sweat consists of the novels Twilight (1961), Ordeals (1964), Crash (1970). As it follows from the titles there are not much sweets of life in the novels. If the characters have some, then they fall into another hell. The protagonist of the trilogy Elaman is always gloomy. But the sense of love for his native land always takes a special place in his heart.

In 1954 he entered Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow and graduated from it in 1956. For his first book he was given the Zhambyl Republican Award. Along with the fact that he worked continuously in the field of prose, he stood out with his keen criticism, and journalistic articles. In 1962–1964 he worked as a head editor of the magazine Zhuldyz, which was the body of the Writers' Union of Kazakhstan, besides that he was a delegate of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR.

Abdizhamil started his literary way with a novel, his favorite genre. A soldier, who just was back from World War II, took a pen into hands and under the pressure of the flushing inspiration presented on the paper the impressions received in a bloody battle, in the struggle between life and death. The impressions were so great that on returning from the army, working tirelessly for four to five years, gave birth to the extensional novel "Kurland" (1950). Although the artistry was not at the quite proper level, this work was included into the literature because of its wealth of ideas and new images. A Kazakh reader could find out all the truth of the trench life, the depth and breath of warrior's life, could see directly the military frontier. "Kurland" afterwards was complemented and reduced, published again under the title "The long-awaited day" (1958).

The writing has been edited in order to improve the artistic quality of the work. Some people suppose "Kurland" to be "bad and beneath criticism". The author seemed to agree with the critics: "... In 1947, being back from the front I wrote the novel in a half-literate state. Of course it's known a half-literate writer will write a half-literate novel." Takhauy Ahtanov noticed that the novelist is a critic himself. In the novel "Kurland", he wrote, a young writer first of all showed his talent and skills of the word-painter. He could show life of the war to the reader in the artistic way.

In December 1946, demobilized from the army Abdizhamil entered upon writing the novel "Kurland", which he started being in the army. After completion and publishing the novel, he had been studying for a year in the Kazakh State University.

In 1942, after leaving a secondary school, he joined the Army and participated in the Great Patriotic War. After graduating from the preliminary courses he became a political worker at the South and the Baltic fronts, in an artillery mortar company thereabouts Luhansk, later he was a staff officer and saw action in the Baltic at the Kurland bridgehead.

His ancestors anciently lived in the area of the Aral Sea. His grandfather in the seventh generation Taykozha Batyr had a son Kaldan; in his turn he had a son Arghynbay Bi, who had a son Sylanbay famous in his time for untold wealth. Nurpeis born after him was a district hakim. Nurpeis had three sons Karim, Nazhim and Kali. All the three and Abdizhamil born of Karim participated in the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945). Among them all Abdizhamil was the only one returned alive from the front. His father Karim was engaged in hunting and worked in the village Soviet. Just before the war he worked at a fishery collective farm. In 1944, on April 21 he died in the war thereabouts Ternopol.

Abdizhamil Karimuly Nurpeisov (Kazakh: Әбдіжәміл Кәрімұлы Нұрпейісов, Äbdıjämıl Kärımūly Nūrpeiısov; 22 October 1924 – 5 February 2022) was a Kazakh writer and translator. He was born in Kyzylorda region, in the neighborhood of Ushkon of the village Kulandy situated in Aral area.

Nurpeisov's novel is valuable for its integrity of the national character. Describing the popular movement of 1916–1918's by terms of socio-psychological method, based on the developing of inner monologues the novel became a true epic of that period of time. In due course there were those who put the genre of the novel The Blood and Sweat against the epic genre. "The internal high-stakes drama breaking the outer shell, leads to value acquisition." Therefore, this is a novel of the "pure blood".

The Kazakh writer to Solzhenitsyn's unreasonable accusation replies composedly referring to the facts: "From the Great Prince Fedor Ivanovich till Tsar Nicholas I the Russians had supported embassies and completed agreements with the Kazakh leaders. But according to your words it turns out that, from 1795 up to 1846 Russia was in negotiations about "their land" not with the Kazakhs but with someone else, he says ironically. He refers to the XV volume of F. A. Brokgauza's encyclopedia published in St. Petersburg in 1895 and produces clear evidence who mostly lived in the lands of the present-day Kazakhstan.