Document Type : علمی- پژوهشی

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1 Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.

2 phd student of Persian Language and Literature, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.

Abstract

Grotesque is a pseudo-species in which the author or speaker mocks individual and social abnormalities with an unpleasant exaggeration that is at the same time disgusting and funny. Grotesque elements create a dual space in a literary and artistic work and create a structure that contains a combination of conflicting thoughts; Grotesque simultaneously fascinates and frightens, laughs and scares. Grotesque usually shows the face of a human being and everything that is based on it in an exaggerated and manipulated way and treats regular and logical structures such as time sequence and cause and effect relationships as if it happened. It is also possible in another way. The novel "Uncle John Napoleon" written by Iraj Mesechzad is one of the works of fiction in which grotesque elements and spaces are used to criticize some ideas and behaviors of the Iranian society. In this novel, there are 136 grotesque elements, of which the element of "abnormality" is more abundant, and the type of abnormality is mainly conceptual and behavioral; Also, in the grotesque element "horror and comic" - which has a frequency after abnormality in this novel - the comic and funny side is more than the horror side..

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