Review of Fariborz Lorestani's Stories based on Minimalist Principles

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Received: 2019-11-25 Accepted : 2019-11-25 Published : 2019-06-22

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Criticism is a scientific tool, and every literary text, whether classical or contemporary, can be criticized from a modernist perspective. One of the literary genres that has undergone significant changes in recent years is the short story. A new form of this kind of narrative, which is getting shorter and shorter every day, is minimalism, which are called in Persian, "rationalism," "minimalism,"," and so on. The present study has attempted to study the short stories of FariborzLorestani, the contemporary writer of Kermanshah, and to exemplify them in the form of obscenity, limitation of time and place, low number of personalities and investigate the characteristics of minimalist style in them. A look at the storybooks revealed that many of the features and characteristics of the minimalist stories were apparent. In Lorestani stories using the smallest number of words to express the most meaning. His minimalist storytelling has given the reader a great deal of content in a few words. Most storytellers have no plot, and if there is a plot, it is not too complex and is expressed in the context of the word without the slightest exaggeration. Another feature of the minimalist story is the limitation of time and place, which, by examining the storybooks, can be concluded that most of them lack time and space and are vaguely expressed if they exist.

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