Authors

• Mohmmad Sadegh Basiri ¹
• Mohammad Reza Sarfi ²
• Ali Taqavi ³

¹ Associate Professor in Persian Language and Literature, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman

² Professor in Persian Language and Literature, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman

³ Ph.D. Student in Persian Language and Literature, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman

Abstract

Literary fiction can be criticized and analyzed through different approaches and literary schools. Meanwhile, the most attention has been devoted to realism, as the most important and permanent intellectual concern of many writers. Iranian modern literary fiction has shown its affection to realism from the beginning, and most of Iranian writers have tried to illustrate the social-political situation of their period; however, their realism has occasionally been moderated by some features surrealism and symbolism. In present essay, after explaining the main principles of realism in fictional literature, we would have a critical review and analysis on the impact and presence of realism in Iranian fictional literature from its rise up to the end of 1970s. We emphasize on the quality and the amount of famous Iranian writers attention to realism; so it can be said that the expansion of the subjects has been accomplished upon each of the writers approach to realism and his perseverance in creating realistic novels and fictions.

Keywords

• Literary Fiction
• Literary Schools
• Realism
• Novel
• Fiction