Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Iran, Tehran, Islamic Azad University, Rabat Karim branch
2 Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Languages, Tehran, Iran Community Verified icon
3 Azad University, Tehran West Branch
Abstract
Absurdism is one of the currents of thought that grew in the West and had a great impact on Western fiction. Contemporary Persian fiction was influenced by this trend at the beginning of its development. The reflection of the themes of absurdism in contemporary Persian fiction is one aspect of this influence. An accurate stream of absurdism and its impact on Western and Iranian literature helps to better understand the origins of contemporary Persian fiction. The present study, while examining the trend of absurdism in Western and Iranian fiction, has compared the commonalities and differences of this trend in both contexts. For this purpose, the works of Franz Kafka and Albert Camus in Western literature and the works of Sadegh Hedayat and Bahram Sadeghi in contemporary Persian fiction have been studied from three perspectives: origin, theme and ending. Western fiction, although shared with contemporary Persian fiction in some themes, is profoundly different in origin and ending.
Keywords
)