The sources of folklore in Elchin’s creativity

Abstract

Elchin is one of the outstanding representatives of the modern generation in Azerbaijan, his creativity is artistically rich and one of the most remarkable features of his creativity is the ability to use of folklore sources. He is an outstanding master of prose both in terms of the theme of the works and plot and image features and in his unique style of writing and plot narrative. The tale-story, tale-narrative, legend-story, dastan-novel that he wrote referring to folklore has a special value from this point of view. In the article the works such as “The Tale of a Nightingale”, “Mahmud and Maryam”, “White Camel” and “Death Penalty” is studied like use of folklore.