Intertextuality in Ahmad Reza Ahmadi's It Was Raining in the Big Garden

Intertextuality is a literary approach which allows critics to study the existing connections in works of literature. In this paper the story, It Was Raining in the Big Garden, written by Ahmad Reza Ahmadi, a well-known writer of the children and young adult literature is analyzed based on Genette’s theory of intertextuality. It is argued that there are many links between this story and his other works, especially in the last parts of the story. However, only persistent readers of his stories can figure them out. Therefore, the intertextuality in this story is an example of intertextuality that Genette calls “implicit”.