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Aylisli addresses the difficult subject of violence between Azerbaijanis and Armenians. Written in Russian by an author who also writes in Azerbaijani, the novel asks about empathy and individual responsibility. Banine wrote in French: her two memoirs move from Baku wealth to Parisian exile. Ali and Nino belongs to Baku’s Caucasian heritage, but authorship under the name Kurban Said remains disputed and is not assigned a definitive nationality here. Anar adds opposing visions of social utopia and dystopia.
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An Azerbaijani actor, beaten while defending an Armenian, remembers the two communities’ former coexistence.
Original title: Каменные сны
Academic Studies Press · 2022
Translated by Katherine E. Young
Edition source ↗Three novellas revisit rural Azerbaijan, family memory and a disappearing way of life.
Original title: Adamlar və ağaclar
The memoir of a girl from a Baku oil dynasty describes privilege, revolution and a lost world.
Original title: Jours caucasiens
After fleeing the Caucasus, Banine learns independence and emigrant life in Paris.
Original title: Jours parisiens
The love of Muslim Ali and Georgian Christian Nino unfolds in revolutionary Baku.
Original title: Ali und Nino
Contrasting visions of utopia and dystopia explore alternative futures for Azerbaijani society.
Original title: Ağ qoç, qara qoç
A discovered manuscript opens a literary game with the Dede Korkut tradition and Shah Ismail’s history, unsettling familiar narratives.
Figures from Caucasian history enter a fiction that explores power and the past rather than reproducing a chronicle.
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