The Narration of Two Women on the Departure of Two Intellectuals: Jalal's Sunst and Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre

This paper is a comparative attempt to study the correspondence of plot and theconsistency of themes in Simin Daneshvar's Jalal’s Sunset and Simone de BeauvoirsAdieux: A Farewell to Sartre. These two women have treated the life and works ofthese two remarkable intellectuals of the twentieth century and have performed anextended representation of their personality and thoughts. We compare the associatedand corresponding themes of these two works in order to explore the attitude andperception of De Beauvoir and Daneshvar towards Sartre and his Persian counterpartAl-e Ahmad. A comparative study of perception and conception of De Beauvoir andDaneshvar about the totality of these two men's personality, demonstrates theconsistency and conformity of their judgments and positions. In spite of theirdifferent origins and their literary value, these two works confirm the abundance ofcommon visions and ideas associated with social and cultural attitudes of Sartre andAl-e Ahmad. anti-colonialist, honest and popular wters and intellectuals.