Nizami Ganjavi’s poem “Treasury of Secrets” and Carlo Gozzi’s play “Turandot” (similarities and differences)

Abstract

In the presented material, the poetic work of the great Azerbaijani thinker Nizami Ganjavi is deeply studied, especially his poem "Treasury of Secrets", which is included in "Khamsa" in a comparative-comparative way with the play of the Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi "Turandot". Attention is drawn to the genre-compositional and poetical-stylistic peculiarities, to the originality of the story and plot construction, the figurative system of both works, the characteristic features of the "Treasury of Secrets" and "Turandot" that unite and separate each of the named works to be studied. Studying the content structure of each of them, we come to the conclusion that medieval Eastern, Turkic, including Azerbaijani literature, due to its exotic features, largely attracted the attention of Western European authors.