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Abstract

Literary era of Sadegh Hedayat and his contemporary novelists in Persian is important due to its thematic as well as stylistic significance. Novelists of that time focused on expressing their view point on social evils and injustice in society and elaborated the worst condition of common man in their writings. They were influenced by social realism movement and tried to maintainglobal standards of literature especially the fiction. The article attempts to analyze the salient features of writings of Sadegh Hedayat and his contemporaries.