Polyphony in the novel A Man in Eternal Exile based on Bakhtin's theory

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1 University of Mohageg Ardabili

2 Undergraduate student of Persian language and literature, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran

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Investigating polyphony in the text is one of the new approaches in the study of literary works. The novel A Man in Eternal Exile, written by Nader Ebrahimi, is a thoughtful autobiographical novel that describes the life, events, series of thoughts and philosophical-mystical beliefs of Mulla Sadrai Shirazi. This historical novel can be studied based on Bakhtin's theory of polyphony due to the influence it has on some works. Based on this, the present essay has studied the mentioned novel by using the descriptive-analytical method and using library sources and using Bakhtin's theory of polyphony. In the process of this research, the components of the narrator's point of view and the scope of the narrator's conversation, the conversational conversations that are the brainchild of the author, and the relationships between the characters, the existence of opposing views and allowing the emergence of different and sometimes contradictory views are some of the examples that It shows how polyphony occurs in this work. Despite its autobiographical aspect, the studied novel is full of multiple voices. The sounds that have been present in the text to the same extent and are in such a way that according to the method that Bakhtin called polyphonic, there is no priority in the sounds.

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Research in Narrative Literature

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Available Online from 26 August 2024

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