Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, University of Tabriz, Iran.
10.22034/perlit.2025.63685.3714
Abstract
One of the ways to get familiar with narrative literature is by aligning it with the characteristics of narrative. Gholam Hossein Saedi is one of the most renowned figures in Iranian narrative literature. More than ninety works of his in various genres, including novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays have been published. In 1960, he published a short story collection titled “A Magnificent Soirée”, and the last story of the collection is titled “The Farewell Ceremony.” The aim of this paper is to examine the functions and features of narrative in this story, in order to highlight part of the role of narrative in the literary fiction of the 1950s and Saedi’s position in the field of storytelling. The research method is analytical-descriptive. Some of the findings include the following: all elements, including the narrator, are manifested through the narrative in this story. The point of view is first-person, with internal focalization. The story is written in the form of a memory-speech hybrid. It employs two types of narrators, a primary narrator and a supporting one. This story is part of a broader intellectual-literary movement, in which, especially in the poetry of Nima Yooshij and Akhavan Sales, night symbolizes tyranny and oppression, while winter represents despair and social alienation. The text follows the message of the story: the night is very long, and the sun will not rise anytime soon.
mahdipour, M. and Ranjbar, E. (2025). Narrative. and its Function in the Short Story “The Farewell Ceremony” by Gholam Hossein Saedi. Persian Language and Literature, (), -. doi: 10.22034/perlit.2025.63685.3714
MLA
mahdipour, M. , and Ranjbar, E. . "Narrative. and its Function in the Short Story “The Farewell Ceremony” by Gholam Hossein Saedi", Persian Language and Literature, , , 2025, -. doi: 10.22034/perlit.2025.63685.3714
HARVARD
mahdipour, M., Ranjbar, E. (2025). 'Narrative. and its Function in the Short Story “The Farewell Ceremony” by Gholam Hossein Saedi', Persian Language and Literature, (), pp. -. doi: 10.22034/perlit.2025.63685.3714
CHICAGO
M. mahdipour and E. Ranjbar, "Narrative. and its Function in the Short Story “The Farewell Ceremony” by Gholam Hossein Saedi," Persian Language and Literature, (2025): -, doi: 10.22034/perlit.2025.63685.3714
VANCOUVER
mahdipour, M., Ranjbar, E. Narrative. and its Function in the Short Story “The Farewell Ceremony” by Gholam Hossein Saedi. Persian Language and Literature, 2025; (): -. doi: 10.22034/perlit.2025.63685.3714
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