Dialogic and polyphonic In the novel "The Strangest Cemetery" by Ibrahim Younesi

Subject Areas : Persian Language and Literature

Abdollah  Latifpoor ¹ (PhD student in Persian Language and Literature, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad)
Ali  Dehghan ² (Department of Persian Language and Literature, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad university, Tabriz. Iran (corresponding Author))
Hamid Reza  Farzai ³ (Farsi Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.)

Received: 2017-11-23 Accepted : 2018-01-29 Published : 2018-02-20

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Abstract :

The novel "The Cemetery of strangers" is the first novel of Ibrahim Younesi; the contemporary Iranian writer and translator.The author in this novel has conveyed social and cultural situation of some Iranian ethniticities, classes and different groups of people and how they interact and encounter with each other in chronotope(time_place) the first era of Pahlavi dynasty and in a part of the west of the country (Kurdistan) and his work become a realistic and historical work. It seems that the author of this work has made some techniques and efforts to create an atmosphere of dialogism and polyphony in the world of his novel. To follow up and prove this priori idea , the novel has been discussed from the perspective of sociology of literature based on Bakhtin theories and especially two famous theories, the dialogism and polyphony. The results of the research show that although the novel (The cemetery of strangers) doesn't have complete "identify" in terms of dialogism and polyphony with Dostoyevsky and rabeleh novels_ Bakhtin has taken his major theories from the works of these writers. But the author in this novel has used techniques that made it closer to a dialogism and polyphony work.