A Critical Reading of ‘Images’ in Bijan Najdi’s Stories

Since some time ago researchers discovered that the link between the artist’s art and spirit is mutual and through encoding an artistic work, one can find his way into the artist’s essence and intrinsic world. This report means to show how the author’s mentality leads to his insight and then describing an image in his writing. It intends to show how each selected image reveals part of a writer’s mysterious and complex inner world and the question raised in here is; ‘is there really a distance between the literary domain and the artist’s mind?’ Bijan Najdi’s short stories- the contemporary writer- enjoys many beautiful pure images, and therefore they are analyzed and studied from this perspective in here. How does Najdi view the events and what inside him causes him to reflect the images as he does? The methodology is based on gathering and exploring information. The data covers the research in five basic branches; imagination and image; symbol and archetype, dark image, sympathy with objects, childlike view in the description of images, and finally the outcomes are explained and elaborated.