Document Type : Original Article
Author
Assistant Professor, Kermanshah University of Technology, Kermanshah, Iran.
Abstract
The village, as a social unit, has been the basis and center of life for the people of Iran and many other societies. Also, because it is the origin of the formation of the cultural identity of Iranians and also the place of economic challenges, crises, sufferings and hardships that are more serious than cities, the village has been able to find its way as one of the most influential fields in the works of contemporary Iranian fiction writers. Among them, Jalal Al-Ahmad and Gholam Hossein Saedi have focused more than their other peers on reflecting the cultural and social characteristics of the village. As committed writers of rural and labor literature, these two have shown the situation of the socially disadvantaged classes and the necessity of reforming the crisis-ridden society of their time by describing and narrating in the form of stories and effective allegorical images. This research, using an analytical-descriptive method and using library resources, shows that Al-Ahmad indirectly and symbolically reflected political and economic trends in his fiction works, in which the village and its issues are a key characteristic and influential on the audience. Saedi, too, relying on the theme of poverty and deprivation, the illness of the lower class, and the poor state of state institutions, portrays the hidden beliefs and extreme superstitions of the people, which are the result of a deluded, oppressive, and stifling society in which the effects of misery and economic poverty have emerged and manifested in the form of ignorance and absurd beliefs of the common people.
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