The ASPIR International Literary Forum reflected on the place of the homo sapiens in Nature
“The time has come to regard environmental issues as an existential challenge to man”, said prose writer Ilya Kochergin, opening the panel. Conservation of nature, he noted, is a subject that has swept many art trends, but literature seems to be moving by some kind of inertia it has no strength to overcome.
“I often read contemporary authors. With rare exceptions, all their works leave an aftertaste of sterility. There is the person with his woes, and all the rest is merely props”.
Kochergin gave an account of how his book Emergency Exit was written, and how the saving of the limp horse Fenya had had an extraordinary healing effect on his entire family. “If we wish to illuminate the outline of a new relationship paradigm between man and nature, we’ve got to go on reconnaissance missions, seeking out secret meanings and explaining them to ourselves”, the writer concluded.
Nazim Ismailzade, assistant director of the Russian office of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, provided an update on the environment protection events and initiatives that the foundation has carried out every year for many years.
Kyrgyz playwright Kairat Imanaliev reminded the audience of what writer Chinghiz Aitmatov wrote: “The hardest thing is to be human day to day”. Imanaliev believes Chinghiz Aitmatov’s novel The Place of the Skull and his other classics have acquired a new dimension today, reminding readers of how delicate our world really is and empowering writers not to fear difficult subjects or literary undertakings of great ambition.
“I often read contemporary authors. With rare exceptions, all their works leave an aftertaste of sterility. There is the person with his woes, and all the rest is merely props”.
Kochergin gave an account of how his book Emergency Exit was written, and how the saving of the limp horse Fenya had had an extraordinary healing effect on his entire family. “If we wish to illuminate the outline of a new relationship paradigm between man and nature, we’ve got to go on reconnaissance missions, seeking out secret meanings and explaining them to ourselves”, the writer concluded.
Nazim Ismailzade, assistant director of the Russian office of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, provided an update on the environment protection events and initiatives that the foundation has carried out every year for many years.
Kyrgyz playwright Kairat Imanaliev reminded the audience of what writer Chinghiz Aitmatov wrote: “The hardest thing is to be human day to day”. Imanaliev believes Chinghiz Aitmatov’s novel The Place of the Skull and his other classics have acquired a new dimension today, reminding readers of how delicate our world really is and empowering writers not to fear difficult subjects or literary undertakings of great ambition.