A study of similarities and differences of Sadegh Chubak and Edgar Allan Poe's short stories

Sadegh Chubak is a pioneer founder of short story in Iran. Meanwhile Edgar Allan Poe is known as the founder of principles and bases of short story in the world. Chubak was the first Iranian to translate Poe's famous poem "The Raven" into Persian. The present article studies the points of similarity and difference in themes and structures of their works. The results of such a comparison show that Sadegh Chubak just like Sadegh Hedayat was influenced by Allan Poe. But there are also differences between them, the most important of which is found in the themes and backgrounds of their stories. As opposed to Allan Poe, Chubak is a writer with an opposing point of view. two other structural features of Poe, are his innovations in applying minor events to the plot and imagery.