Semantics and stylistic essence of names of unrealistic (fictional) places in fiction

(On the example of Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev's short stories)

Abstract

The concept of space in literary works where events take place is briefly explained in the article according to the topic. Then, after enumerating the unrealistic place names invented in the short stories of writers, as well as in Hagverdiyev’s researched story, we emphasize the concrete name Dajjalabad. In addition to the semantics of the name of the unreal places, as well as Dajjalabad, one of their integral parts, which is dominated by backwardness, ignorance and superstition, and the names of Islamabad in general, the realities that take place there (in Dajjalabad) are explained as generalized names of life left behind at that time and attention is paid to the originality of such fictitious names for satirical style. The article also notes that the unrealistic places where the events took place were chosen to satirize the works of art and to express stylistic irony.