چکیده:
By exploring the classical works of Iran, one can sometimes find modern literary genres that are completely aligned with those works in all structural and textural components; one of these genres is the minimal story, which consists of a complete story at its most concise possible level; this level includes the preservation of the essence of the story. On the other hand, in the classical works of Iran, both in verse and prose, due to the entanglement of literature with various religious, mystical, and wisdom-based thoughts, in most cases, the content aspect prevails over the formal aspect of the work. This dominance is to such an extent that even in our classical poems, the content is so prominent that it makes the poem resemble a narrative poem. In these circumstances, the story, which is inherently a content-driven expression and where form manifests very subtly, is much more influenced by content than poetry, and the formal aspects of the story, including: the portrayal of characters and their blending with content, have become very stereotypical and are limited to quasi-anonymous citations. Of course, this subject does not have a research precedent, but articles have been published regarding minimalism in classical literature. In this writing, using library research methods and content analysis, an attempt has been made to address this dominance of content over form in three dimensions: characterization, plot, and theme.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Although minimalism is considered a new phenomenon in Western literature, many examples can be found in classical Iranian literature that are completely consistent with the structural definitions of this type of story and, in terms of form, sometimes possess advantages over its modern counterparts.
In this writing, to demonstrate the superiority of content over form, examples of minimalist stories have been selected from two books; one is the book "Siyasatnama" by Khwaja Nizam al-Mulk al-Tusi, which is one of the important works of Persian prose from the fifth century AH, its subject is the ritual of kingship, statecraft, ethics, and the politics of former kings, and its writing style is simple, clear, and free from affectation and artifice; and the other is the book "Marzban-nameh," which Sa'd al-Din Warawini translated from Tabari into Dari Persian in the first half of the seventh century.
A story is a creative narrative work that has a meaningful relationship with the real world, but the structure of this creation is possible with various elements including narration, narrator, character, setting, theme, subject, point of view, scene, tone, symbol, etc.
Therefore, in a comprehensive and preventive definition, we consider the minimalist story as follows: "A style or literary or dramatic principle, based on the excessive reduction of the content of the work to the minimum essential elements, usually in a short format such as Haiku poetry, aphorism, a short dramatic piece, or monologue.
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