The donkey allegory as the expression means of the satirical thought in the literature
Nazmiyya Yigitoqlu

Today the necessary task of the contemporary Azerbaijani literature and philology is the description of the Garabagh war and the refugee tragedy. The creativity of the writer and playwright Elchin Huseynbeyli occupies a special place among the numerous works dedicated to the following topics. From this point of view, the writer’s narrative “The letters of the grey donkey” differs from the other works of the author. So the donkey is the sad story-teller about an abandoned village in this work. The idea-aesthetic features of the allegorical style and donkey characters encountered in the world literature are also discussed in the article.

Keywords: George Orwell, “Animal farm”, “The donkey loaded with the book”, the war prose