An analysis and criticism of opening the novel

During the last decades, many books and articles are written about theoretical arguments of story and fiction. Each of them played a role to promot the thearitical and practical perspectives of novelists or readers of story works. The book of “opening of novel” written by Hossein Payande belongs to these works. This book in the light of the structuralist approach and relatively common as well in analysis review of contemporary novels. This method is based on analytical reading of opening scene and explains its structural relationship with totality of novel. Based on this research method, the author analyzed and reviewed ten famous Persian novels (from blind owl to samples of post modernist novels) with one short story and one movie. In addition to advantages of this book such as paving away outlook and method. this article pays attention to some defects in terms of structural aspects and content aspects. Alt mately the present book can be from relatively and instructive works about review and analysis of today stories.