Document Type : علمی- پژوهشی

Authors

• saeed hatami ¹
• reza bardestani ²
• Hamid Jafari Qarye ali ³

¹ Faculty member - vali - e - asr University rafsanjan - iran

² EDUCATED

³ Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature, Vali-e-Asr University Rafsanjan, Iran

Abstract

Abstract
Trilogy is one of the oldest genres in dramatic literature and Western fiction. Famous writers from ancient Greece to the present have created phenomena; that literary criticism community, considering specific criteria and strong configuration, in terms of definitions and examples, has known them as trilogy. In recent years, this genre has entered the Persian fiction literature, and in the form of screenplays, short story collections, and novels, a few phenomena whose most important phenomena of fiction are the subject of this article, it has emerged in this direction. Since trilogy is new in Iran, and Iranian scholars have not explained its nature and criteria, this research tries, the degree of conformity of these phenomena with the trilogy writing coordinates found in the valid definitions of this genre; also reflect on the famous and index trilogy such as "Oresteia" by Achilles and "Three Colors" by Kieslowski. Based on the findings of this study, the Iranian authors of these phenomena did not have a comprehensive and coherent idea in your mind of the trilogy concept and its coordinates and criteria; therefore, their phenomena can be considered more or less trilogy with tolerance, and basically none of them are fully qualified in this area.

Highlights

Persian Fiction Trilogy from Thoughts to Reality

Saeed Hatami

Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, University of Vali-e-Asr Rafsanjan)

Reza Bardestani

M.A in Persian Language and Literature, University of Vali-e-Asr Rafsanjan)

Hamid Jafari Qarye Ali

 Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, University of Vali-e- Asr Rafsanjan)

Abstract

Trilogy is one of the oldest genres in dramatic literature and Western fiction.  Famous writers from ancient Greece to the present have created works which literary criticism community, considering specific criteria and strong configuration and in terms of definitions and examples, has known them as trilogy. In recent years, this genre has entered the Persian fiction literature, and in the form of screenplays, short story collections, and novels, a few works have emerged in this direction, the most important of which have been studied in this article. Since trilogy is new in Iran, and Iranian scholars have not explained its nature and criteria, this research tries to study the degree of conformity of these phenomena with the trilogy writing coordinates found in the valid definitions of this genre and are also reflected on the famous and index trilogy such as "Oresteia" by Achilles and "Three Colors" by Kieslowski.  Based on the findings of this study, the Iranian authors of these works did not have a comprehensive and coherent idea in their mind of the trilogy concept and its coordinates and criteria; therefore, their works can be considered more or less trilogy with tolerance, and basically none of them are fully qualified in this area.

Keywords: trilogy, trilogy writing, coordinates, Persian fiction trilogy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Introduction

The genre of trilogy in the Persian fiction is an obvious split. It means that most Iranian novelists and readers, without proper attention to definition, rule, regular geometric system, intellectual support, specific and limited frameworks and many other complexities that are inherent in the genre, have considered every "three-part" work, whether a story or a screenplay, a triple. In the field of Persian fiction, the claim that some of the works of Iranian writers are triple poses a challenge to the researcher as on the basis of what criteria, one can consider a set of three fictional works, whose relatedness are somehow imaginable, as a triple. Authors of this article, while explaining the most important and essential coordinates of the trilogy, have selected and criticized five Persian fiction trilogies.

Materials and Methods

Two of the world most famous structured trilogies, i.e. Achilles' trilogy "Orestia" and Kieslowski's "Three Colors", have been the main sources to extract the Trilogy coordinates of the writing to use as criteria for measuring the degree of conformity of the Persian trilogies,

The research method in this article is based on describing and analyzing the content using library resources.

Conclusion

Based on the findings of this study, Seyed Mahmoud Hosseinizad’s trilogy with its coherence and also having three themes (messages) and an independent subject, and at the same time, related to each other and observing brevity in the narration, is closer to being a trilogy than the other trilogy; on the other hand, Jafar Shahri's trilogy, as the first Persian fiction trilogy, is a work to be considered and respected; while the content gap between the first part and the other two parts and also procrastination as two factors reducing the quality of the trilogy cannot be ignored. Content rupture, as we have said, has also damaged the quality of the trilogy of Ahmad Mahmoud, Fariba Kalhor and Kamran Mohammadi; Fariba Kalhor’s and Kamran Mohammadi’s trilogy are respectively damaged by the irregular dependence and connection of the parts to each other and the more or less repetition of the theme and the message.

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Keywords

• trilogy
• trilogy writing
• coordinates
• Persian fiction trilogy

Main Subjects

• Fiction Literature