Ashura distortion in contemporary fiction (review of the works of Sadegh Hedayat and Mahmoud Dolatabadi)

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In the contemporary era, with the evolution of the storytelling industry in the West and the emergence of new literary formats, such as short stories and modernist novels, many writers have entered the field of fiction and in their writings reflect religious events, including Ashura. Have paid. In the meantime, however, there are writers influenced by Western culture who have risen up against the values ​​of the Islamic religion and the original Ba'athists of the Shiite school and fought with religious ideas. Just as others have become part of religious sanctities without intention, but simply because of ignorance and disregard for religious concepts and ideas. Accordingly, the issue of Ashura and Hosseini's uprising has not escaped the scrutiny of some contemporary writers in the field of fiction. In this article, which is organized using critical methods and using library resources, examples of distorted approaches and inappropriate attacks on the category of Ashura and the uprising of Hosseini (AS) in contemporary fiction by looking at the works of Sadegh Hedayat and Mahmoud Dolat A village belonging to two different generations has been studied. Looking at the mentioned works, it is clear that unfair judgment about the characters and awkward entry into the story scenes, negative observation, distortion of historical events, as well as insulting the beliefs and cultural values ​​of Iran's religious fabric, including major The most deceptive tricks of the Ashura event are in the works of the aforementioned. Enumerating

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Available Online from 03 October 2020

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