A Comparative Study of Two Short Stories:

At the beginning of the twentieth century, due to various reasons, Iranian fiction was influenced by the works of the world's great writers. In this process, Russian writers had the major contribution. Among Russian writers, Chekhov's works received the major attention and were translated into Persian. Many studies have been conducted to assess how this famous writer has influenced some of the great contemporary Iranian novelists. Mansour Yaghouti is among the writers who seems to have been influenced by Chekhov while writing one of his fictions entitled "Unique flower". Seemingly, he followed and modeled the structure and content of some short stories by Chekhov entitled "Sorrow", "The Lament", and "The Gloom" which have been translated into Persian and published several times in Iran. The numerous similarities between these two stories in terms of structure and content brings this question into mind that, had Yaghouti been under the influence of Chekhov when writing his fiction? This study aims to answer this question through comparing and analysing the similarities between the two stories from various aspects.