(MENAFN- AzerNews)
By Laman Ismayilova
Najaf bay Vazirov has gone down in the history books as the
founder of the realistic tragedy genre in Azerbaijan. The writer
was also known as the first feuilletonist (a writer of feuilletons)
in the country, Azernews reports.
Vazirov was born in Shusha, where he also received his primary
education. He finished a gymnasium (secondary school) in Baku with
a silver medal.
In Baku, the young writer met with the founder of the first
Azerbaijani language newspaper 'Akinchi' (The Ploughman) who taught
at the school.
Noticing the student's interest in the theater, Hasan bay
started to involve him in staging the works of the founder of the
Azerbaijani drama Mirza Fatali Akhundov.
Akhundov's plays were staged for the first time in the
Azerbaijani language, and thus, they laid the foundation for
professional Azerbaijani theatrical art.
In his student years, Najaf bay often visited Moscow theaters,
where he became more deeply acquainted with the works of the
classics of the Russian drama, among which he especially admired
Alexander Ostrovsky's plays.
Moscow theaters made an indelible impression on the young
Azerbaijani writer and aroused in him an interest in realistic
dramaturgy.
So, Najaf bay started to write articles, essays, and feuilletons
for the newspaper 'Akinchi' (The Ploughman).
Founder of realistic tragedy genre in
Azerbaijan
In his works, Vazirov exposed and criticized the remnants of
feudalism in society.
In 1896, Vazirov wrote the first Azerbaijani tragedy
'Fakhraddin's grief' in which he created a positive image of a
young Azerbaijani educator-landowner, protesting against feudal
orders, and striving to reform the patriarchal lifestyle.
The tragedy touches upon the theme of fanaticism suppressing
young educated minds who struggle against reactionism and
ignorance.
Najaf bay Vazirov is considered the first example of the
realistic tragedy genre in Azerbaijani literature.
In his subsequent works such as Pahlivan-i Zamana (Heroes of Our
Time) the writer also criticized the patriarchal social system.
His last work, Taza asrin ibtidasi (The Beginning of the New
Century) was dedicated to women's emancipation.
Najaf bay Vazirov's theater productions
The second period of Najaf bay Vazirov's creativity coincided
with the oil boom, the flourishing of Baku capitalism, and
bourgeois life in the late XIX and early XX centuries.
His works 'Heroes of the time' (1898–1900), 'Aghakarim Khan of
Ardabil' (1902), 'The Cursed Money Hunter Haji Faraj' (1914), and
other plays significantly enriched the repertoire of the
Azerbaijani theaters.
The theater productions, like 'The Stone Thrown From Behind Hits
the Heel', 'From Rain To Downpour' also made Vazirov an immortal
classic of Azerbaijan literature.
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