The relationship between Intertextuality and Postmodern Ontology in " Mirza Yunos" short story by Sirous Shamisa

Intertextuality is Mikhail Bakhtin’s evolved polyphonic theory on the basis of which the literary texts of past and present are in dialogue with each other, and no text is self-sufficient and devoid of its earlier texts. The intertextual feature of artworks and literary texts challenges their independence, and in a much later, makes the boundaries of their independence get unstable and removed. Relying on this idea, the present study has analyzed the short story of “Mirza Yunos” from the short story series of “Ayne va se dastane digar (The mirror and three other stories)” by Sirus Shamisa. I believe that, in addition to being a manifestation of the characteristics of postmodern era, the instability and suspension of boundaries among literary texts are targeted too, and can be a consolidating element for the ontological aspect of fictional atmosphere in the fiction realm, through which the textuality of history/reality is realized. This study shows that the various inter-texts in a text can make it possible for the existing and non-existing experiences to be interwoven in a way that recognizing their limits becomes basically difficult. I also argue that literary texts are not just in dialogue with written texts, but the semantic and conceptual scope of the word “text” becomes wider and includes various and new aspects. In fact, since various knowledge and genres enter the fiction realm, one should speak of “inter-genre” concept and think of the fiction as its subcategory.