Carnivalesque in Ahmadzadeh's Shatranj ba Machin-e Qiyamat

Most Iran-Iraq War novels are considered to be an ideological device for the “Holy-Defense” genre; however، in the recent years،a number of distinct polyphonic novelshave emerged، one of the most important of which is Ahmedzadeh’s Chess with the Doomsday Machine. Bakhtin’s distinction distinguishes between monologue and carnivalesque novels. Polyphonic novels، like carnivals، act as a centrifugal force supporting nonofficial dimensions of the society. Images of food and carnal elements، cursing، reciprocal relation between characters and settings according to the double aspects of carnival، and rebellion against a victorious closure by postponing the narrator’sactions distorts the linearity of narration common in in the Holy-Defense novels.