Characteristics of the Stream of Consciousness in the

Before it is considered as a technique in the modern fiction، the «stream of consciousness» was a psychological term used by the American psychologist، William James، on how the formation of memories، thoughts، dreams and emotions of humans occur. Later، authors who based their works on human mind paid attention to his inner world of thoughts and personal emotions; using these ideas، they accomplished the stream of consciousness as a form of story writing. The fields of this method generally include human’s mind and mental reality، modes and manifestations of inner life and true Self، such as thoughts، feelings، fantasies and dreams. Also، the sensing time (non-chronological)، which is an inner and ring time، as well as a complex language that is different from the everyday language are of the characteristics of this approach in story writing. Nezami’s «Haft Peykar» (Seven Bodies)، in the realm of fiction، is interpretative from different perspectives throughout which human’s original experiences are completely explained and his inner life with all its deeds and manifestations are noticed. Different faces and various voices of a human being، a human’s spiritual contradictions being overcome by the assistance of the inner creative forces، connection of conscious and subconscious، subjective and objective، reality and dream، confusion of time and so on are among the outstanding manifestations of the stream of consciousness in this book. In the present paper، relying on some of the elements of the stream of consciousness and highlighting them، we have made an attempt to deal with Nezami’s “Haft Peykar” and tried to offer a new approach to this story.