The evaluation of elçin efendiyev’s children stories in terms of "relativity to the child"

Abstract

Elçin Efendiyev, who is one of the leading figures of 20th century Azerbaijani literature, was born in Baku in 1943. This period is a period under the pressure of the Soviet administration, in which the literary works were written in line with the demands of the management, when the "socialist realism" movement was extremely influential. Elçin Efendiyev did not forget the children either, besides his works of different types. He went on contributing to their education and development by writing stories and nursery rhymes for children. In this study, firstly the life and literary personality of Elçin Efendiyev will be emphasized, then the stories written by Efendiyev for children will be analyzed with the method of "text oriented story analysis" and will be evaluated in terms of " child-appropriateness". Nineteen child stories, which are in the first volume of compilation of the ten volumes compilation titled Elçin – Seçilmiş Eserleri published by the author ''Çinar-Çap (Çınar Publishing House)'' in Azerbaijan, constitute the universe of the study

Keywords

• azerbaijan literature
• elçin efendiyev
• children's literature
• story
• child-appropriatenes