Auezov Mukhtar. Abai (Abridged)

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975. — 459 p.Auezov studied Abai all his life. And not merely as the future hero of his novels and plays. He spent no little time and effort on pure research, and published a number of monographs on Abai. What is more, he had a special course of Abai studies included in the university programme.
He was one of those writers who make their own sternest judges. And so he had to be Quite sure that he had learnt all there was to learn about Abai — and his knowledge was probably unchallenged — before starting on such a difficult and terrible Odyssey of the Kazakhs.