BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 17. The monograph “Kamal
Abdulla and Postmodernism”, dedicated to the works of People’s
Writer and academician Kamal Abdulla and authored by PhD in
Philology, Associate Professor Nargis Ismayilova, has been
published in English.


This was reported by the Azerbaijan University of Languages
(AUL).


The monograph brings together a number of Kamal Abdulla’s prose
works written at different periods and analyzes them within a
postmodern framework. The study examines the writer’s novels The
Incomplete Manuscript, The Valley of the Magicians, No One to
Forget..., The Adventures of Secrets, as well as several of his
short stories.


The book provides an analytical study of these works from the
perspective of contemporary literary and theoretical thought. It
also explores the innovations Kamal Abdulla introduced into fiction
and investigates their connections with world literature.
Addressing this aspect, the author notes: “As one of the principal
representatives of postmodernism in Azerbaijani prose and the
creator of significant works in this field, Kamal Abdulla’s oeuvre
is exceptionally rich, relevant, dynamic, and multifaceted in terms
of its reciprocal development alongside European
postmodernism.”


Focusing on the postmodernist dimensions and deeper layers of
meaning in Kamal Abdulla’s prose, the monograph consists of an
Introduction, four chapters - Kamal Abdulla: From Postmodernism to
National Distinctiveness; No One to Forget...; The Secret of Time,
or the Labyrinth of Stories; The Adventures of Secrets: The
Problems of Character, Time, and Theme in the Postmodern Labyrinth
- and a Conclusion.







Through original analyses, the author arrives at the following
conclusion: “The emergence and development of postmodernism in
Azerbaijani literature are closely associated with Kamal Abdulla’s
literary oeuvre. The writer succeeded in creating some of the most
comprehensive examples of this literary movement. These works help
us understand Western postmodern thought, appreciate what
postmodernism has contributed to our literature, and observe and
analyze how this movement has developed on a national basis through
concrete literary examples.”


Published by Qanun Publishing house, the scientific editors of
Kamal Abdulla and Postmodernism are PhD in Philology Azer Turan and
PhD in Linguistics, Associate Professor Jala Garibova. The
reviewers are Corresponding Member of ANAS, Professor Tehran
Mustafayev, and PhD in Philology, Associate Professor Maral
Yagubova.


The monograph was translated into English by Sevil Gultan. It
should be noted that the book was first published in Azerbaijani in
2024.