The author's views and description of the literary environment in Sabir Ahmedli's novel “The Unwritten Writing”

Abstract

In modern Azerbaijani literature, the number of fiction-documentary works is growing. Many authors have written autobiographical works in which they try to objectively tell about the events of past years, describing the most difficult periods of the past – the 30s, 40s, 50s, 70s and 80s of the 21st century. The study analyzed the autobiographical novel “The Unwritten Writing” (2004) written by Azerbaijan People's Writer Sabir Ahmedli. As a result of the study, it becomes clear that in the novel, where an important role is assigned to historical discourse, the author focuses on the dark and painful topics of our history. The work, which depicts the conflict between “the writer and the system”, includes portraits of political leaders from different historical eras and the literary brethren of the writer.

It is noted that these works, written in the first quarter of the 21st century, are the works of the last “living witnesses” of the Soviet era. These novels, memoirs, created by writers, have artistic and aesthetic significance in our literature and should be considered in both artistic and documentary works, as well as a historical source.