Naturalism and fable with a look at the works of Sadegh Chubak

Abstract

Among the world's writers naturalists care most about animals and objects. The attention of these authors to nature, the precise description of the environment and the events and personalities -with the emphasis that the environment has coercive and deterministic control over the events and personalities- is the reason for this attention. Nature, and especially animals, have long been considered in Iranian literary works. Animals have emerged in literary works in the form of literary fables. Fables are short tales that have symbolic, dramatic or moral conclusions. Among contemporary writers, Sadegh Chubak has taken advantage of the presence of animals in his stories and novels. The animals in his works are like humans, captive to the force of nature and subjugated by the constraint of the environment, but do not escape fate, and are obedient to destiny, and humans have their own way of behaving in dealing with these animals.

Keywords

• fable
• naturalists
• sadeq choobak