THE INFLUENCE OF JAMES JOYCE’S MODERNISM ON THE PROSE OF THE SIXTIES IN AZERBAIJANI LITERATURE

The article determines that the content of each literary movement is associated with certain historical, socio-political and cultural factors.The analysis showed that as a result of the flourishing of industry in Europe, the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization paved the way for the formation of modernism in the Western literary environment.In addition, an important feature of modernism was its manifestation in new forms, through rewriting, and its connection with tradition through the development of a number of literary techniques.Naturally, the modernist literary movement moved away from a number of traditional qualities.At the same time, it is noted that the issue of bringing to the agenda what existed before modernism, through rewriting, is assessed as its connection with tradition.It is revealed that the scope of the modernist movement was very wide and manifested itself in a unique way in the literatures of different peoples.The fact that it also took place in Azerbaijani literature is emphasized.Azerbaijani literature of the 20th century also underwent a unique development path under the influence of a number of factors, and the literature of the 1960s was distinguished in this regard by its innovative features.It was concluded that many representatives of the prose of the 1960s bypassed the established rules of socialist realism in literature and tried their pen in a completely different style, thereby breathing new life into Azerbaijani literature.We turned to the creative examples of Anar and Elchin, who are among the most prominent representatives of the generation of the 1960s, enriched their national prose with new themes, styles and ideas.After the period of socialist realism, the prose of the 1960s brought a different style of thinking and writing to literature, which was not directly subordinated to the established rules of that period, and one of the various qualities that must be assessed as innovation in their work, in our opinion, is the traces of the modernist literary movement.To explain this idea more precisely, the article examines many of the features inherent in the modernist literary movement in prose of the 1960s based on a comparative analysis with the work of the outstanding modernist writer James Joyce.