Short stories in “Molla Nasreddin” magazine

Abstract

Although “Molla Nasreddin” magazine has been studied from different angles, it has not
been researched in terms of the richness of the genre it created in our literature, as well as the
typology of the story. One of the most frequently utilized genre forms by the authors participating
in the magazine is short stories. The clear plotline required of the story classification and the
principle of concentrating the idea around a hero or event in a small volume are more serious for
small stories. In the “Molla Nasreddin” magazine preference is given to short stories that meet the
requirements of the press. Researchers did not acknowledge these accounts as stories, as in many
cases the places where the events took place were indicated by known geographical toponyms.
However, the level of imagination and typification of these texts gives grounds to propose that the
authors additionally applied to the geographical space to perform the artistic and aesthetic function.
The article inspects the form-content features of the short stories of less than a page in the magazine
and the issues of the identity of the authors.