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A comparative study of the short stories of Jalal Al

Ahmad and Yusuf Idris According to realistic
indicators

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Atefeh khodayi
Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language & Literature, Open
University, Al-Mustafa International University of Qom, Qom, Iran.

Abstract

Comparative literature is a knowledge that it provides the opportunity to examine the
some subjects without considering the effect and impression by examining and
comparing the common topics between two writers or poets,. Jalal Al-Ahmad and
Youssef Idris are two contemporary story writers who, as evidenced by their works, use
the school of realism, especially social realism, in their writing. In this research, a
comparison has been made between selected short stories of these two authors. These
two writers have lived in the same period of life and almost similar cultural, social and
political environment, and the similarity of their perception of the school of realism
with this explanation is believable and justified. On the other hand, every writer has a
special style in writing, and Al-Ahmed's conversational style is closer to the mentioned
characteristics of realistic writing. Youssef is one of the writers who introduced
Egyptian literature to the short story format and gave it an Arabic structure and content.
Jalal, along with a large generation of influential Iranian writers, are one of the founders
of modern Persian literature.

Keywords: comparative literature, realism, Jalal Al-Ahmed, Yusuf Idris

Email: A.khadayi@mou.ir 1