Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 17، number In Volume 11، February 2025 ، issue Number 105

Intertextual analysis of uncertainty in the linguistic and narrative style of Boofe kour Sadegh Hedayat and Malakout Bahram Sadeghi

Marjan Hasanpour , Nahid Akbari (Author in Charge), Hesam Ziaee

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Intertextuality is one of the results of developments in the field of criticism and studies of literary texts. The main goal of this research is to analyze and investigate the factors of doubt at different levels of the narrative, considering the intertextual nature of the component of uncertainty in the two stories "Boofe kour" by Sadegh Hedayat and "Malakout" by Bahram Sadeghi.

METHODOLOGY: This research is based on library studies and document analysis method, using the descriptive-analytical method and referring to reliable scientific sources and databases. In this research, two books of Bofkor and Malakout have been analyzed and in order to provide statistical samples, 3000 sentences from each of these two intertextual works have been analyzed.

FINDINGS: In the two stories of Bufkor and Malkot, the proposition of uncertainty - which is one of the main coordinates of postmodern stories - is clearly evident, and this is the reason that, despite the categorization of these two novels under modern novels, it can be said that the component of uncertainty is Two works have given a postmodernist flavor.

CONCLUSION: In these two works, both authors have taken measures to express uncertainty, which are manifested in the levels of language, narration, characterisation, point of view, place and time of the story. Sadeghi Bamanand"s guidance mixes the world of fantasy and reality to make the audience suspicious. The novels of Bofkor and Malakout are close to the coordinates of postmodern novels, and the multiple and uncertain characterizations, the plurality of truth and reality, and the simultaneous use of fantasy and reality make the narrative space full of ambiguity and doubt in Bofkor, and Sadeghi in Malakout is also honest with the implicit intertextual approach. From Bufkor has paid attention to the manifestations of uncertainty in this story.

Keyword
implicit intertextuality. Boofe kour. uncertainty. Malakout

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