Abstract:
The well-known tradition of fiction in the form of "Animal Story" has long been known as a "heritage of human thought" among literary genres. Fable and the transcendental form of allegorical stories from Kalila and Demna, The Conference of the Birds, the Mouse, and the cat of Zakani till the Little Black Fish on a chain, continued to be valuable to this genre. This paper aims at explaining the differences between the Fable and the Allegory by showing the genealogy of the little black fish, and its symbols as the last and most elaborate of Iranian Allegory, providing a concise analysis while rejecting the attribution of the roots of this story to " Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, an American writer, builds its origins in Kalila and Demna, Marzubannama and The Conference of the Birds.".
Machine summary:
Despite the fact that "Jonathan Livingston Seagull by American Richard Bach has great similarity to The Little Black Fish and has recently been referred to it" (Valipour, 1396: 54), it seems that the lineage of this masterpiece, with a glance at Mantiq al-Tayr and its hoopoe, traces back to Kalila and Dimna and the "story of the crab and the fish-eating bird," and perhaps the old fish, the narrator of the story, is Samad's return of the black fish after death to among the sea fish (similar to the thought of reincarnation among the ancient Indians).
" Genealogy of The Little Black Fish in Technical and Fictional Prose Texts and Analysis of its Symbols * Ali Asghari PhD student in Persian Language and Literature, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran Mohammad Amir Obaydinia Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran Abdullah Toloiazar Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran (Received date: 1397/07/12; Acceptance date: 1397/12/05) Abstract The fine tradition of storytelling in the form of "animal tales" has long been able to have a special brilliance among literary genres as a "heritage of human thought.
This article attempts, while explaining the differences between fable and allegory by presenting the genealogy of The Little Black Fish and providing a concise analysis of its symbols as the latest and most magnificent Iranian allegory (animal allegorical story), to reject the attribution of this story to "Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, an American author" and reveal its roots in Kalila and Demna, Marzbannameh, and Attar's Mantiq al-Tayr.
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