Libri di letteratura Turkmena Migliori da leggere e consigliati

Un punto di vista unico e originale basato su una grafica fresca e intuitiva, che riporta alla luce concetti, luoghi e personaggi della migliore narrativa di ogni tempo. Un’opera che è anche un atto d’amore verso la scrittura e verso quegli autori che, in qualsiasi epoca e in qualsiasi luogo, hanno raccontato storie degne di essere lette. Scritto in modo semplice, Il libro della Letteratura analizza elementi letterari e linguistici, ed è, inoltre, ricchissimo di incisive didascalie, grafiche e immagini che aiutano a fissare con chiarezza i temi centrali, le figure di spicco e gli stili, dall’epica antica, da cui emergono capolavori come l’Iliade o il Mahabharata, alle opere moderne di Italo Calvino, Bret Eston Ellis, Zadie Smith e molti altri.

In the mid-eighteenth century the Russian tsar sent two expeditions across the Caspian Sea in response to an extraordinary plea for assistance from the recently subjugated Kalmyk Khan. The official journals of these expeditions, here translated into English for the first time, record the encounters of Captains Tebelev and Kopitovskii (in 1741 and 1745, respectively) with the Turkmen tribes of the Caspian frontier zone. Together they form the basis for Peter Poullada’s study of the relationship between the expanding Russian empire and the tribal peoples of Central Asia over a period of more than 200 years. Drawing on Russian archival sources and Persian and Uzbek chronicles, Russian-Turkmen Encounters provides a detailed exploration of the historical and political context of the encounters so vividly described in the two journals. Poullada shows that before the better-known nineteenth-century rivalry between the Russian and British Empires, famously known as the Great Game, Russian merchants, envoys and explorers were engaged in a complex relationship with the various tribal and political groups of Central Asia: Turkmen, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Kalmyks and even forces from the Safavid and Afshar shahs who ruled Iran. Russian-Turkmen Encounters provides a valuable new resource that will lead to a deeper understanding of Russia’s imperial expansion and its involvement in the geopolitical and commercial rivalries with the major political groups in Central Asia during the early modern period.