Comparative Socialist Realism in German and Russian Fiction

Subject Areas : Comparative Literature Studies

Mohammadamin  Ehsani estahbanati ¹ (Shiraz University of Medical Science, Instructor of Persian Literature Department)

Received: 2020-12-01 Accepted : 2020-12-01 Published : 2020-11-21

Keywords: Fiction, : socialist realism, Anna Seghres, Christa Wolf, Mikhail Sholokhov, Mikhail Sholokhov. : socialist realism, Mikhail Sholokhov. socialist realism,

Abstract :

  As a literary or genre type, fiction is influenced by different political and social actions based on the content structure. The universal literature, after the World War II, had been placed in the instrumental role for advertising the redevelopment of the escalated societies. The socialist realism is based on the background of socialist community and forces’ description which are making society in the inner side. The realist socialist presents a correct historical image and drawing struggling effects of people’s lives, from the Marxist ideology and revere of anthropology. The present research aims to investigate the literary works of three German and Russian writers such as Anna Seghres, Christa Wolf and Mikhail Sholokhov from the socialist realism and its reflection in their own stories. Although these works are written in roughly different periods of time and have different themes, each one are somehow utilizing this basis in a various way. The results of this research which is conducted in descriptive-analytical and library-based data-mining, show that Michael Sholokhov performs indicating the ideals of communist government and utilizing the socialist realism components compared to the individualism and love notion in “the divided heaven” by Wolf and “The dead are remained young still” by Seghres as more potential