Stone Dreams : : A Novel-Requiem / / Akram Aylisli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Aylisli, Akram,
• MitwirkendeR: Waal, Thomas de,; Young, Katherine E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Central Asian Literatures in Translation
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 p.)

Amid ethnic violence, political corruption, and petty professional intrigue, an artist tries to live free of lies. Set during the last years of the Soviet Union, Stone Dreams tells the story of Azerbaijani actor Sadai Sadygly, who lands in a Baku hospital while trying to protect an elderly Armenian man from a gang of young Azerbaijanis. Something of a modern-day Don Quixote, Sadai has long battled the hatred and corruption he observes in contemporary Azerbaijani society. Wandering in and out of consciousness, he revisits his hometown, the ancient village of Aylis, where Christian Armenians and Muslim Azeris once lived peacefully together, and dreams of making a pilgrimage of atonement to Armenia. Stone Dreams is a searing, painful meditation on the ability of art and artists—of individual human beings—to make change in the world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword: Stone Dreams and Akram Aylisli’s Life of the Mind -- Translator's Note -- The Curious Death of an Old Coat Check Girl, the Deadly Dangerous Joke of a Famous Artist, and the Party Card-Pistol -- O Almighty Lord, Be So Kind, Tell Me: Did You Create My Aylis or Did My Aylis Create You? -- The Young Author of a Play in Which Sadai Sadygly Will Never Perform Accuses the Former Master of the Country of Ethical-Moral Genocide against His Own People -- Dr. Abasaliev Claims That If a Single Candle Were Lit for Every Murdered Armenian, the Radiance of Those Candles Would Outshine the Moon -- Glossary of Terms -- Notes