Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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PhD Student, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Ramhormoz branch, Islamic Azad University, Ramhormoz, Iran
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Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Ramhormoz branch, Islamic Azad UniverSity, Ramhormoz, Iran
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Department of Persian language and literature, Ramhormoz Branch, Islamic Azad University , Ramhormoz, Iran
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The Assistant Professor Persian Language and Literature department ramhormoz branch, Islamic Azad University,Ramhormoz, Iran
Abstract
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Mohammad Kalbasi is one of the founders of Jong-e Isfahan literary circle, a member of Saeb Literary Association and an Isfahan School writer. Not interested in fame, he has only published six collections of short stories. His literary style is inspired by such writers as Bahram Sadeghi and Borges. This paper tries to study the evolution of modernism in Kalbasi’s short stories. He has an “introspective” style and enters the depths of the characters’ souls and psyches. He also emphasizes the employment of literary figures and experiments with the form of the story. Under the influence of modernism, Kalbasi portrays how his characters are determined by the external world and are thus unable to address the challenges of life. By dint of symbolism, he brings ambiguity to the story and shows the loneliness of the modern person via his employment of first-person point of view and stream of consciousness. Kalbasi is the narrator of the human being’s shock; his characters suddenly face a manifestation of death and his heroes / heroines have no idea why such unexpected and difficult events befall them. Time in his stories goes fast and gains momentum, a point which is best represented in his works via short, broken sentences. In general, it can be concluded that Kalbasi’s stories are not all modernist, but some of his works show modernist tendencies.
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