Night and day

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INTRODUCTION TO “NIGHT AND DAY” NOVEL BY CHO`LPON 
Amonova Dilfuza 
Trainee-teacher at the National University of Uzbekistan 
Named after Mirzo Ulug`bek 
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Annotation: One of the members of “Nationalist” circles in early XX century Cho`lpon is 
well known poet with his poetry. His criticism of Soviet power through his works made 
him the target of denunciations at the later stage of his life. This corroded not only his 
young life but also delayed the fame of his poetry. One of the important pieces of his 
art is his “Night and Day’ novel. This incomplete book follows the terrible fate of a 
young Uzbek girl condemned to marry a man who was much older than her. The novel 
raises questions about the nature of Russian colonialism, resistance to it and objects of 
the author whose life was lost to Stalinist terror. 
Key words: Nationalist, denunciation, Russian colonialism, Stalinist terror, dilogy, anti-
imperialist, rehabilitation, jadids`s movement, confiscation, resistance. 
Unfinished dilogy Night and Day is one of the valuable novels of Uzbek literature 
which was lucky to survive over the soviet period. Creation of this novel started in 1934 
with the homecoming of the author from Moscow. The novel was first published in 1936 
but did not win any prizes. Instead, caused further troubles for the author and he was 
sentenced in a severe manner. “Night and Day”, more precisely “Night” [because the 
second “Day” part was not written or confiscated by Stalinists when the author was 
arrested] was banned almost immediately after publication and out of print for fifty 
years. Cho`lpon was condemned as anti-imperialist in 1938 because of his criticism. 
After his death his creations were prohibited to republish and his name was not 
remembered again for many years. Even the rehabilitation of his name in 1956 during 
the period of Xrushchyov could not help the uzbek nations to fully establish him. His 
works were not republished in this period too. In 1968, there was an attempt to include 
Cho`lpon`s poetry to Uzbek anthology but it was not successful because of the difficult 
period. With the independence of Uzbekistan, the names of many nationalist poets were 
rehabilitated. And also Cho`lpon`s too, in 2017 there was an 120 years anniversary of 
Cho`lpon in Andijan city. Today their birthdays are widely celebrated and their works are 
republished and read not only through the country but also in another countries like 
Russia, United States that I will share below. In this article, I will cover the main points 
about this book and the author from the past up to now. I will also give some view of 
the main characters of the novel to some extent.
Before starting my analyses of Night and Day, I would like to mention some renowned 
people who worked on this book and made great shares to the young researchers. After 
independence day, several philologists lead by Ozod Sharafiddinov gave efforts to 
multiply the copies of the novel but, as a result of some economic difficulties, they 
could not get their ideas accomplished. After the situation in the country got better, 
Xotam xoji Mirzaxujaev became the leader of “ Cho`lpon`s contribution” in 2012. He 

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