درهم تنيدگي رئاليسم جادويي و داستان موقعيت تحليل موردي: داستان گياهان در فرنطينه

Interweaving of Magic Realism and Story of Circumstance: A Case Study of "A Plant in Quarantine"

Magic realism and Story of circumstance are two manners or streams in contemporary story writing. In comparison with Magic realism, Story of circumstance is a new and unknown stream in Iran. Because of common characters and infrastructures, these two streams can be investigated and analyzed in a single story. A plant in quarantine by Bizhan Najdi is a short story that lends itself well to analysis through Magic realism and Story of circumstance approaches both at the same time. The present study first introduces the main principles of these two streams, i.e. characterization, mysticism, objectivity of phenomenon, structure and material of circumstance, through presenting parts of the famous works of prominent figures of these two literary streams, Marques and Borges in Magic realism and Kafka in story of circumstance; the article, then, analyzes Najdiʹs story, A Plant in Quarantine, based on these principles. The article, in addition, drawing upon the outcomes of modernity, i.e., ruling of reason, imposed technology, etc. shows a human being devoid of creativity metaphysics beliefs, native customs, personal identity, etc; a desperate human unable to change his environment.