Some aspects in Azerbaijanian memoir literature

Abstract

The aim of the article is to review the works of Azerbaijani writers who wrote in the memoir genre, to identify and analyze the elements that reflect the socio-historical and literary-cultural environment in the memoirs of each author we study. The study used the method of analysis of documentary materials related to the historical methodology, as well as the historical and historical-comparative method. The works of well-known figures of literature and culture in Azerbaijani, Russian and world literature, as well as travelers and journalistic memoirists: road records, memoirs were taken as a theoretical base and comparative-welcoming method was used in this process. The novelty of the research. The article examines the memoirs of writers living in exile, both in Azerbaijan and abroad, as the texts belonging to the autobiographical and biographical type of fiction, emphasize imagination and subjectivity in the works, containing reality. Discussion. In the works of Azerbaijani memoir writers to analyze and identify elements of memoirists reflecting the socio-historical environment; elements of the literary and cultural environment; to identify in the analyzed works the reflection of events through memory; to identify the connection between memory and history in the analyzed works.