The great narrator Chingiz Aitmatov, in one of his magnum opuses, Farewell, Gulsary!, presents the reader with the turbulent life stories of a famous thoroughbred horse named Gulsary and his owner, Tanabay. In the novel, the great enthusiasm experienced by the Kyrgyz people as they gained their freedom with the collapse of Tsarist Russia, the magic of the idea of change, and the relationship between society and the individual, and between man and nature, are expressed masterfully and realistically. The corruption, bureaucratization, and collapse that ensued immediately after freedom are, in a word, sorrowful. At that contradiction-filled point where practice does not align with theory, a self-criticism begins. Farewell, Gulsary! is a reckoning on the border between life and death! Farewell, Gulsary! is a magnificent lament that perfectly recounts the life cycle of a horse alongside the life cycle of man and society, as well as the tragic consequences of “domestication” and “modernization.” It is a lament for lost freedom, equality, and brotherhood…