Genesis of the Novel in Classical Azerbaijani Literature

Abstract

The article notes that the heir to the form of the epic and the way of thinking of the
epic and the role of the novel “Father” lies in the mission of the main “literary dictation”, which creates
an eternal image as a literary portrait of the modern world. When we replace the concept of “modern
romance” with the concept of “novel of a modern word” and the expression “modern word” refers to the
early period of the 2nd millennium, the method of analyzing the problem ceases to be concrete. The genre,
characterized by an epic, has stabilized in the concept of a novel as a fact of written literature from the
2nd millennium. Although epic creativity and the genre of the novel were simultaneously involved, epic
creativity turned a new sheet of epic prose into literary thought. If we take into account the fact that the
beginning of the history of the world novel is marked from that time (the story of Genji), this statement can
be considered true.
The Azerbaijani novel reflects its variants, such as epic, myth, rumor, legend, history as a detail,
fragment, and mind. Nizami Ganjavi uses the Arabian legend in his novel “Leili and Majnun”. As a motive,
the author needed a scheme and philosophical, aesthetic shades of this legend. Nizami Ganjavi, and then
Muhammad Fizuli replaced the legend motive with the epic motif, and he brings a philosophical and
aesthetic essence to the ordinary epic