Comparative study on Jalal Al Ahmad's " My sister and the spider" and Albert Camus's " Plague" and " the guest"

The present article tries to study the impacts of Albert Camus’s thoughts on Jalal Al Ahmad. If we assent that the some of the Iranian authors are affected by French literature, then Jalal Al Ahmad is one of the most famous contemporary authors who is similar to Albert Camus in regard to his thoughts. The author of the present article attempts to do a psychological criticism from Jacques Lacan’s point of view and Roland Barthes’s semiology on one of the Al Ahmad’s novels titled “my sister and the spider”. By doing so the concepts such as nihilism, mechanism and demodernization can be worked out.