Representation of Modernity Transition in Iran Contemporary Literature (Case Study: An Anthology of Hedayat and Farrokhzad's Works)

This paper deals with the representation of modernity transition in Iran contemporary literature. Forough Farrokhzad and Sadeq Hedayat, as the two leading figures of Iran contemporary literature, were selected to trace the methodological elements in their thoughts and works, according to the modernization transition process in contemporary Iran. The main question of the research, which is being answered through a documentary and content analysis based on an interpretive sociology outlook, is that what style or outlook is Forough Farrokhzad and Sadeq Hedayat's methodological concerns in contemporary Iran transition to modernity are based on, so that it has influenced on their cognition, viewpoint and their creating works of art. Results indicated that both of them had followed action research attitude through a dialectical process. Yet they are different in the sense that some of the static aspects of their works is specified to their own contexts as the results of a dialecticism between objectivity and subjectivity, concerning their outlooks toward human being. While Sadeq Hedayat's traditional point of view within a patriarchal structure has led him to make no distinction between tradition, religion and objectivity of the age through a naturalistic mutual implication, Forough has succeeded to go beyond the traditional gender-related limitations to achieve new horizons of thought regardless of gender.