I think this is a very complicated problem to tackle. It raises a legitimate question: do oriental ideas determine the consciousness of Kazakhstani people or is it determined by the West? And if art is a mirror of a society, what do we see in this mirror? In this case we are also talking about Kazakh customs and traditions, the Kazakh worldview, which is different from both Eastern and Western.  

Before joining the USSR and the Holodomor, Kazakh society was characterized by a synthesis of its traditions with Eastern ones. Sufism, founded by Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, emerged as a result of the introduction of local customs and traditions into the Islam that came from the East. The doctrine was congruent with Tengrism, the ancient religion of the Central Asians. It praised selflessness, suppression of carnal desires, high morality and sense of responsibility before others, practised contemplation of death. That is why the Kazakh beys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bey) were Sufis and fair judges, they were not afraid to tell the truth to the Khan, they did not patronize their relatives, that is why people really trusted them – they subordinated their consciousness to the contemplation of death during their lifetime. 

The leaders of the Alash party and the intelligentsia supporting them were interested in both Eastern and Western ideas and sought to bring them into the Kazakh worldview. This can be seen in the translations made by Akhmet Baitursynov and Mirzhakyp Dulatov and in the poems of Magzhan Zhumabaev. I think it is obvious that this movement, led by the national leader Alikhan Bukeykhanov, sought to ensure that the Kazakh people did not lag behind in anything. However, after the artificially created famine, which took the lives of half of the Kazakh population, after the repressions that swept over the best representatives of the intelligentsia, the people became frightened. Life turned arduous and survival became the main concern, pushing aside the desire for education, science and arts. That is, all national spiritual values began to be gradually destroyed, culture began to lose traction, and at that point Western ideas were imposed on the people. I think that Western countries came to this era through evolution. The teachings of Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, the works of Sigmund Freud, various social movements, ideas about women’s equality and human rights began to penetrate the consciousness of the Kazakhs, which combined the features of Turkic and Eastern worldviews. At the same time, the Soviet authorities put pressure on free-thinking people of science and art, keeping them in the tight hold of censorship. In other words, Western ideas entered the minds of the Kazakhs unnaturally, not evolutionarily, but spread like a virus. People were afraid of the Gulag and the Karlag, where they could end up in light of a slightest mistake. People of the West put themselves in place of God, "killed" by Nietzsche and Darwin, and, when the period of "democracy" came, Lenin and Stalin, who proclaimed themselves "solar leaders", became gods in the USSR. 

As for the modern Kazakh society, it reminds me of the nuclear test site in Semey, which is the fault and responsibility of the USSR, or the dying Aral Sea. Mutually exclusive ideas crowd in the minds of our people. They do not know the true meaning of national beliefs and traditions, but want to preserve them, being under the influence of radical religious ideas, unsuccessfully trying to adapt them to modern life. The Western worldview to them seems alien but an inevitable imposition of time. As a result, unable to make sense of this complicated mix of ideas, they feel utterly confused. 

Now back to the main question. I believe that Kazakhstani literature should not confront ideas borrowed from Western and Eastern cultures, but combine them in an original manner, giving the texts a national content and sound. Kazakh literature will definitely not lose if it absorbs the ideas of thinkers who have had a great influence on the world, such as Freud, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Jung, but only if it finds a way to combine these ideas with Oriental myths and Kazakh worldviews. Perhaps it is then that every reader will find answers to their questions.