PHILOSOPHY OF CHILDHOOD IN THE WORKS OF CHINGIZ AITMATOV

In the article the author analyzes the autobiographical memoirs of Ch. Aitmatov "Childhood". In the book of the writer, the childhood period of his life is perceived by him as an inexhaustible treasury of impressions, it affirms the idea with a powerful philosophical message that childhood is a kind of embryo of a personality that forms the artistic vision of the future writer-creator. Aitmatov has a special ability not only to experience reality, but also to record this experience. The value of the book lies in the fact that the author does not imitate a child's view of what is happening.