The importance of construction and content in the novel "Lonely" by Behzad Nikkhah with the view of Genet's structuralism.

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Associate professor and faculty member of Razi University

10.30473/pl.2025.72526.1677

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Travel is an archetype and one of the pleasant human processes, and with its difficulties, fatigue, and cost, because it provides valuable experiences to humans, it has been considered as one of the important human functions, as humans in metaphors. Movement and concept, ascension, life, death and marriage, etc. have been considered [as] a journey. The mystics have also imagined reaching perfection as a journey through the valleys which require physical and mental effort and discipline so that the seeker can pass through them. Those steps will get closer to the truth and be saved. This descriptive-analytical essay answers the question of what is the old novel "The Lonely Ones" and what similarities does this plan have with the mystical journey? The findings show that this novel, based on the hadith "I know myself...", emphasizes on Najjar's self-knowledge after he is tired of repetition, and then with his passing through Haft-Shahr and by inviting their people to go towards the truth, he shows and walks the way to salvation. Najjar, with more and foresight, calls people to accompany him and go to the utopia of meaning and truth; But finally, with despair from the people and their futile expectations, alone and after destroying the temple, he takes the path of heaven and ascension. In this story, the narrator is constantly trying to hide himself, and the narration progresses through the definition of dreams and dreams, and reading from his grandfather's unwritten book or reviewing a mental process.

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