The Stone Dreams Mikail Mamedov Analysis

The Critical Evaluation of Mikail Mamedov 's Article About “The Stone Dreams Scandal”

One of the recent works of Azerbaijani literature that caused a controversy among the society and ruling class of the country is the novel of Akram Aylisli, Stone Dreams, published in 2013. The critical review examines the article written by Mikail Mamedov, which is called “The Stone Dreams scandal: the Nagorny Karabakh conflict and Armenian-Azerbaijani relations in contemporary literature". (2013) Mamedov gives arguments according to his research on the scandal of Stone Dreams, and analyzes the situation with an objective judgement. His overall arguments about Aylisli 's novel leads to the hypothesis that Aylisli 's novel can be categorized with one of

(Deleuze and Guattari, pg.47) Minor literature does not mean speaking in minor language or expressing the ideas of minority, on contrary it is defined as speaking about “minor ideas” in a major language, which also defines its main characteristic, deterritorialization. In other words, it is the way of talking about the ideas in language of the society, in which people are against these ideas. Besides that, the works that are related to minor literature should also be related to politics and it must contain the nature of the political concepts. Finally, although in minor literature the ideas are not common to the whole society, it must have a enunciative value, which means that it should be the shared idea of few individuals. Through the analysis of Mikail Mamedov, it is possible to review the link that he creates between Stone Dreams and the characteristics of minor literature, but although this view is well-founded, analyzed and explained through the article, there are some arguments about the similarity of Stone Dreams with the other

Mamedov gives a part of the novel as an instance, to compare it with the Stone Dreams. This part is about a refugee boys’ from Armenia, which is called yeraz, protecting Margot, the main character from the Azeri classmate, Javanshir, who attacked Margot and broke her nose. The author states that although Yerazi boy in Maria’s novel described as a moral, humane and forgiving person, in Aylisli’s novel Yerazi are represented negatively, and even the term “yerazi” may be used pejoratively in the novel. He gives an evidence that in Stone Dreams, begins with “Sadyghly’s arrival in hospital after being beaten up by a crowd of yerazi”, which is definitely not the proof of his statement. (Mamedov, pg.45) In every society and ethnic background there are both people with good and bad behavior, and if Aylisli started his novel with this kind of introduction, which describes that “one crowd of” yerazi has shown violence against Sadyghly, it does not mean that he wants to give an idea of yerazi’s being violent people and because of the immoral behavior of just one group of people he applies it to the whole population. The problem with this argument is that, the book is controversial and it gives people reason to criticize every single sentence that contains violence. If it was not received the same reaction, and was just an ordinary piece of