Essay
Qarolar falsafasi
Not translated into English
Anbar Otin · 1909
Opening lines
Бул камина ва бечора девор кўнжида тўшакка мазбут михланғон аҳволда ётиш (б)илан маъюс ва мажруҳ ётган йилларим камина ва маҳзуна номимки Анбардур, ани тўла-тўкис таъриф қилмоқ бу каминаи ҳақир ва фақирға ожизлик таъсирини ҳувайдо қилиб турур.
To describe in full the years in which I, humble and poor, have lain sad and wounded in a corner by the wall, nailed fast to my bed, I, the humble and sorrowful one whose name is Anbar, brings home to this lowly and poor woman her own helplessness.
Translation by Erostrate
Text quoted from n.ziyouz.com
Synopsis
A prose treatise, preceded by an introduction and divided into four parts, each of which ends with a poem drawing the lesson from it. The author starts from the word black and everything it designates, and comes to poverty, discrimination based on colour and the fate of women, their condition and their rights. She maintains that a person's worth lies in their conduct towards the world and towards others, not in their skin, their country or their language.
Context
The text also bears a second title, in Persian. It remained in manuscript and was found in the early seventies among its author's papers, together with a second collection of some forty pieces and one hundred and sixty isolated lines, and it is kept in the holdings of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. It appeared in Tashkent in a volume bringing together her poems and her treatise. Scholars read in it a reflection on social inequality and on the fate of the poor, conducted from a single word.
Who it is for
In Uzbek, with no French version. A short prose, interspersed with verse. It is worth knowing that an otin was a woman who kept a school for girls, the only education then open to them.
Prizes and reception
The treatise now appears in the literature textbooks for the final year of Uzbek secondary school.
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