Socialist realism in Neighbor and The story of a city by Ahmad Mahmoud

Subject Areas : criticism

parvin zeinali ¹

1 - Student-Bonab Azad University

Received: 2018-07-02 Accepted : 2019-02-07 Published : 2019-02-20

Keywords: realism, socialist realism, Neighbors, Ahmad Mahmoud, Story of a city,

Abstract :

Realism is one of the literary criticisms in the world that has been engaging in ancient times in human thought. The processing of this thought began with Aristotle in the ancient times and so far this thought has continued with ups and downs. In the contemporary period in the nineteenth century in France and then in other countries a school and a movement was created that sought to consolidate the foundations of realism. ocialist Realism is one of the components of this school which became the focus of attention in Iran after the constitutional movement and became the basis for the formation of works including fictional literature with a social context. Ahmad Mahmoud is one of the prominent writers of socialist realism in Iran whoalways tried to portray the external and internal motives of the characters in the personal and social life in fiction. The present paper seeks to analyze two of Ahmed Mahmoud's novels with neighbors' titles and the story of a city based on socialist realism and to show the agreement of the structural model of socialist realism with the novels of Ahmad Mahmoud.