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Death in the Prism of Existentialism: A Comparative Reading of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Sadeq Chubak’s The Patient Stone
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In this article, I compare William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Sadeq
Chubak’s The Patient Stone with respect to the theme of death and from
the perspective of Existentialism. I argue that despite Faulkner’s influence
on Chubak and similarities in their writings, the Iranian modernist
novel presents intellectual and aesthetic nuances catering to the domestic
material circumstances of its composition. While As I Lay Dying offers a
pro- Sartrean and nihilistic notion of mortality, the Iranian novel features
a pro- Heideggerian and authenticating view of death. I use this
comparison in order to transcend the notion of modern Iranian literature
as merely influenced by Western literary models. -
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- 2016
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- Article (Published)