Apropos to the upcoming movie where its hero, Birzhal Sal is shown with his artistic “brigade of free people,” it should be appropriate to remind an explanatory paragraph from the book “The Soul of Kazakhstan” (New York, 2001. P. 191) written by Alma Kunanbaeva: < Groups of itinerant singers and bards (aqïns) also existed. Along with musicians, these groups traditionally included a humorist-wit, a smith-jeweler and a strongman–wrestler. In the make-up of such “brigades,” it was as though the implied poetic metaphors had been personified – the “forging” of a word, a triumphant word, a muscular word, and a striking or well-aimed word. The image and its embodiment traveled together, the word being sharpened simultaneously as an idea and as a visible action. >
Posted on: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 19:01:06 +0000