Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 15، number In Volume 11، February 2023 ، issue Number 81

A study of the intellectual style of Reza Baraheni's fiction with a sociological approach

Vahideh Jodari , Ali Ramezani (Author in Charge), Reza Aghayari Zahed

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Reza Baraheni, in addition to working in the field of poetry and literary criticism, is one of the leading contemporary novelists. His works are a reflection of the political situation in Iran before the Islamic Revolution and the events of the Revolution with a focus on the socio-political issues of Pahlavi society. In this article, with the aim of expressing the author"s intellectual style, the central ideas in his stories are examined with a sociological approach.

METHODOLOGY: Research method is descriptive-analytical. The statistical population of the research is the stories of "Song of the Killed", "What happened after the wedding", "Secrets of my land", "Well to well" and "Mr. Ayaz"s hellish days".

FINDINGS: Baraheni by combining symbolic expression and modernity, the choice of historical and contemporary figures, with realism and postmodernism, has repeated the three central ideas of the dynasty "s Despotism, depravity of the dynasty and popular struggles in all his stories. In recounting his thought, describing corruption, poverty, imprisonment and torture of the Pahlavi dynasty is the author"s style of thought.

CONCLUSION: Baraheni stories can be called a historical account of the life of the people and the events of the Pahlavi period. He is a political writer who has tried to describe the despotism of the Pahlavi dynasty, the poverty of the people, the popular struggles against the Pahlavi dynasty, torture and the consequences of imprisonment.

Keyword
Baraheni , story , imprisonment , torture , poverty , depravity

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