A Realistic Reading of the Short story Collection "Gorghaa Wa Dehkada"

(by Hossein Fakhri)

Abstract

Regarding stories and story writing, not many research have been done in Afghanistan and this part of our literature has been less discussed in meetings  and universities, and this has caused the growth of story writing in the country to be low. However, Narrators, along with poets, have done their work with good and sometimes low success rates; Among them is Hossein Fakhri, who has been among the Narrator since 1354 with the short story "Mehmaan-e- Kochak". Short stories, novels and travelogues have been published by him. Among these, "Gorghaa wa Dehkada" is a collection of short stories, which could be read Realistically; Therefore, this research is aimed at a realistic reading of this collection and finding an answer to the success rate of this Narrator and how its content and structure are formed. The scope of this research was the collection of stories "Gorghaa Wa Dehkada", which benefited from the theoretical foundations of the school of Realism. The data has been analyzed analytically and the findings have been expressed qualitatively. The findings of the research show that: except for three stories, the other eight stories in this series are Realistic stories, which narrate the life of the low and middle level society. The characters are fully representative of their social class. The scenes are simple and understandable. The language and tone are standard and popular, and the stories are narrated in an omniscient and first-person manner.