Abstract
<jats:p>Elchin Efendiyev’s novel “The Death Sentence” is a work in which a range of historicalpolitical as well as social-psychological realities associated with the Soviet period are artistically represented. Against the background of these realities, the novel presents a collective national image that is subjected to trial and analysis. In the novel, one can perceive the creative influence of the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, who depicted the peoples of South America that endured similar historical and political cataclysms. The article comparatively examines two of Márquez’s major novels, regarded as his masterpieces: “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “The Autumn of the Patriarch”. Both novels address an extensive historical-political epoch—from the period of European colonization of the American continent to the time contemporary with the author. A similarity in thematic and ideological lines inevitably brings about analogous artistic and stylistic qualities. For this reason, “The Death Sentence” also reveals a number of parallels with Márquez’s works in both ideological and artistic-stylistic terms. The article primarily investigates the similarities manifested at the level of artistic language and conducts comparative analyses based on four analogous artistic details: situational irony, symbolic forms of address, situational forms of address, and contextual-metaphorical names. Keywords: Márquez, situational irony, forms of address, Aureliano, Elchin, patriarch.</jats:p>