Hossein Rezaei Laksar; Yousef Aram; Maziar Mohaymeni
Volume 15, Issue 2 , September 2023, , Pages 100-123
Abstract
Rahesh is the last novel written by Reza Amirkhani. He tried to reflect his concerns about the disproportionate development of Tehran in this novel. As other works written by Amirkhani, Rahesh was also published many times and even won the Ale-Ahmad literary reward; the point which indicates its importance. ...
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Rahesh is the last novel written by Reza Amirkhani. He tried to reflect his concerns about the disproportionate development of Tehran in this novel. As other works written by Amirkhani, Rahesh was also published many times and even won the Ale-Ahmad literary reward; the point which indicates its importance. Hence, in the present article we tried to study this novel with a look at Barthes's theory of narrative codes. To do this, first of all we determined the five codes (with emphasis on semic, symbolic and cultural codes) in selected lexias and analyzed them. Then, in order to understand it's hidden and apparent significations, we criticized the deconstructed text with a look at the concept of ideology. The results of this analysis show that applying Barthes' method beside using a trans-textual reading, can illuminate the dark parts of the text, for example in this article we concluded that Rahesh, like readerly texts doesn't pay attention to readers. Also some binary oppositions like nature/city, purity/impurity and tradition/modernity form from the beginning of the story and continue and expand to the end of it; oppositions which are taken for granted by the narrator. Besides that, the narrator tries to make false oppositions and biased characterization in order to hide some parts of reality or even reversing it. These features, make Rahesh an Idiological text.
