(Compositional Structure in Apray Qor Pagha Hai: A Collection of Very Short Stories by Javad Saeedipur

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The art of the very short story, the microfiction or the flash fiction, is one of the newest prose arts in the world in and in Iran. The collection of short stories under study fall under this genre. This collection was first published in 2007 by Carawan Publishing House in Tehran and they republished it again in 2011, and it falls in 127 pages sized A5. It contains 85 very short stories, some of which are less than two lines,  and most of which deal with social themes and their style is predominantly sarcastic.
This research uses the descriptive method along with the comparative method. It aims at attempting to answer this question: "Is the compositional structure of this collection influenced by the characteristics of the short story or not?" the research also aims at identifying the structural characteristics of this collection.
The researcher found that the storyteller makes great use of short sentences. He also makes changes in sentence structure, omitting some constituents of the sentence such as the object or the subject, given that the omission is acceptable, as he uses it when it can be presumed from context or to indicate interest.
He also makes much use of paradoxes, specially at the end of his stories. He embellished his paradoxes by making them overlap with anastrophe and also by repeating rotation. He makes good use of good introductions whereby he attracts his reader and makes him enter his world and psychological atmosphere. He also takes the reader's atmosphere into account and makes him present in his stories.
The researcher recommends conducting thematic and linguistic studies on the writer Javad Saeedipur and his output as well as on art of the very short story.

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