The Role of the Political and Social Order in the Shaping of Iranian Novel (Qajar’s and Pahlavi Era)

The Novel has a dialectical relationship with society. It’s representer of society's different voices and also a field to construct different socio-political discourses. In Iran, the novel is a new phenomenon which emerged in late Qajar era and expanded in Pahlavi time. In this research, we will study how the novel reflects and influence the characteristics of Iranian society. We went through this subject by examining the Persian novels of this period via structural theories. We found out that in these years, most of the authors considered various social issues of ？ran society; however, the issue of religion was the least interesting topic among them. Also, the social issues that they mentioned have not changed significantly in these 100 years. In these years, Iranian novels had helped to spread nationalism, in the meantime novels, especially in late Pahlavi, developed an anti-West trend in the society