Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Janola Karimi Motahhar
• Nahid Akbarzadeh

Abstract

The present paper would firstly present the characteristics of critical realism in brief. Critical realism is a phenomenon belonging to the golden era of Russian literature. Some Iranian writers such as Mohammad Ali Jamalzade, Bozorg Alavi, Jalal Ale Ahmad and Mirza Fathali Akhondzadeh created their eternal works much impressed by this school. They used a simple language to expound people's social and cultural problems. Afterward, we would analyze the realization of critical realism in the works of Akhoondzadeh, in particular his comic play "The Attorneys". The writer has pointed his bitter criticism at the judiciary of his time (the Qajar era) and the mechanism of dealing with people's judicial cases. Considering the ideas of the greatest Russian writers and the Russian critical realism, Akhoondzadeh in his "The Attorneys" has depicted his own picture of the social issues of the time

Keywords

• Critical realism
• Russian literature
• Persian literature
• influence
• Akhoondzadeh