Abstract
BERDYNAZAR HUDAYNAZAROV AND WAR AND WOMEN IN THE NOVEL "KUMLULAR"
Berdinazar Khudaynazarov is one of the important representatives of Turkmen literature of the 20th century. Berdinazar Hudaynazarov is a poet, writer, screenwriter, dramaturg, critic, journalist, translator and politician. In addition to his poems, novels and stories, he has written radio plays, literary conversation articles and introductory articles about poets and poetry books. Since he started his literary career by writing poems, he was first recognised for his poems. Later on, he wrote prose works in addition to his poems and showed that he was also a master in writing with his novels, stories, political-social writings, literary articles and film scripts.
Khudaynazarov's most famous work is the novel “Gumlular”, written in 1970 and translated into many languages. With this novel, Hudaynazarov showed that he was also a master of writing. The novel is a historical novel about the difficulties experienced by the nomads living in the Karakum Desert during the Second World War. “Gumlular” novel is also an autobiographical novel as it is parallel to Khudaynazarov's life story. Because Hudaynazarov is the son of a shepherd from Yerbent in the centre of Karakum, and during the war his family was displaced to Lebap on the banks of the Amuderya River.
Since Berdinazar Khudaynazarov's childhood and youth spent in Karakum, he usually describes the life of nomads living in the desert in his works. As a matter of fact, in his other novels and stories such as the novel “Gumlular”, in his first poetry book “Gızgın Sahra” and other poems, in his conversation writings, desert life is always discussed.
In this article, after giving information about the life, works and literary personality of the 20th century Turkmen literary figure Berdinazar Hudaynazarov, the novel “Gumlular”, which is considered one of the important works of Turkmen literature, will be analysed in terms of war and women themes.
Keywords
Berdinazar Khudaynazarov, Gumlular novel, theme, war, woman.