Through history, translation has been a pivot in the making of the literatures. Not only has it not been taken as only peripheral in establishing the literary systems, for many literatures it has been a source of norm making, but also it has been considered as a means of crystallizing the target literature. Although this function of translation has helped the young and weak literatures to put in use their newly founded tongue, on the one hand, it has, more often than not, put a halt to the flourishing of the literatures, on the other. This book studies the literary system of Azerbaijani; how...