Aesthetics of metafiction in Reza Amirkhani's postmodern novels

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Azardokht Khatibi ¹ , Rahim Taher ² , reza fahimi ³

1 - PhD Student in Persian Language and Literature, Saveh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saveh, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Saveh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saveh, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Saveh Branch

Received: 2023-02-19 Accepted : 2023-06-04 Published : 2024-02-03

Keywords: metafiction, aesthetics, literary tricks, language tricks, Reza Amirkhani,

Abstract :

As one of the most common types of postmodern stories, metafiction is a way in which the narrator mentions the process of being a story and story writing during the story. Reza Amirkhani, a prominent contemporary Iranian novelist, has a postmodernist approach in some of his novels and tries to direct his writings to the beyond through different methods. The authors of this research have investigated the aesthetics of metafiction in Amirkhani's novels by relying on the descriptive-analytical method, and in addition to definitions of metafiction and aesthetics based on the opinions of experts, they have examined the methods used by Amirkhani for the beauty of metafiction. This research shows that Amirkhani's use of language tricks such as marked names, repetition, separate writing of words, colloquial and colloquial language, multilingualism and language and verbal games, and literary tricks such as metaphor, simile, irony, adaptation and contrast in his novels cause The beauty has become a myth and it has been successfully created by the creation of the myth.