Elements of Nihilism in works of Sadegh Hedayat and Zakaria Tamer
Subject Areas : Persian language and literature texts
maryam mohammadzadeh
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(Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Ahar Branch, Ahar, Iran.)
Keywords: صادق هدایت, Sadegh Hedayat, زکریا تامر, nihilism, Zakaria Tamer, مرگ اندیشی, نهیلیسم, thinking of death,
Abstract :
Pessimism towards the world and its structures has always been a topical issue during human history. But the approaches to probe it have led to a formal school of thought called nihilism and this has been one of the outputs of modernism reflected in poems composed by Persian and Arab poets along with the works of the philosophers and scholars in the field. Since one of the best approaches to identify an issue is to compare it with a parallel and same level sample, the present study has tried to probe the issue using a descriptive-analytic method to discuss about the elements and constituents of nihilism in the works of Sadegh Hedayat and Zakaria Tamer as two pioneering writers in modern story writing in Iran and Syria who tended towards nihilism to recognize some of the problems repeated in this school of thought and to investigate about the factors that led these two authors towards nihilist thoughts. Findings showed that although Hedayat and Tamer belonged to two different cultures and societies, nihilism, disappointment, pessimism towards the individuals and the society, thinking of death and introverted thoughts have dominated thoughts of both authors and being informed about the thoughts of western scholars, local dominance and tyranny have been among the common and effective factors that caused both authors to tend towards nihilism.
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