The Delineation of Traumas Corresponding to the War and its Consequences in the Novel of Divar

In stipulation of language and narration as amongst the most expressive devices, the war literature evinces appalling and suppressed concomitants of confrontations in the collective perceptions. Nonetheless, certain of these literary works, particularly those who have discretely detached from the years of warfare have been adroit in providing more distinctive and effectual explications of this communal authenticity. The novel of Divar written by Alireza Gholami perhaps remains in this category. Divar demonstrates an all-out war novel, an account of expressing a realistic view, unconventional and altered to the issue of the Iran-Iraq war, which maintains inconsistent with and occasionally contradictory to what is occurring in the domain of war theme in the society. In this study, Divar has been analyzed through the method of qualitative-quantitative analysis and according to Freud's individual trauma and Jeffrey Alexander's collective trauma. The components of violence, destruction, shouting, death and discipline have correlated with the most important occurrence of traumas in the characters of, Divar, respectively. In this novel, the objective implications of traumas have been illustrated in the states of shock, anxiety, coldness and indifference, numbness and isolation, disordered behavior of children, aggression, retrospection of embittered memories, and destruction of human relationships.