The article deals with the characteristic peculiarities of Jalil Mammadguluzadeh’s literary heritage from a completely different point of view. The author, who considers Mirza Jalil as the greatest representative of critical realism in Azerbaijan, puts forward his scientific opinions based on the writer’s prose examples. According to the researcher, the characteristic peculiarities of Mirza Jalil’s world are mostly reflected in the way of life and worldview of the characters who are between primitive thinking and civilization, between East and West, between past and present.