A Sociological Criticism on “Safar” (Traveling) Novel

The  present article offers a sociological  criticism on “Safar” novel. The sociological criticism as an important approach in sociology of  literature , studies  interaction between novel and society, as well as, the effect of them on each other. First persian novels since constitutionalism era to the contemporary period, there has been a specific connection between structure and content of Persian novel and Iranian society. With more complex dominant relationship in Iranian society including social, political and cultural spheres, structure of Persian, structure of Persian novel has oriented to a critical realism. In  the “safar” novel , as a literary work that is result of transition period changes, the author by choosing  the life of an ordinary family in suburb area, shows tragic dimensions  of  this social class influenced by those transformations. So in this study firstly we  are going to refer  to dominant theories on sociological criticism and give an   theoretical  explanation on society changes based on “safar” novel based on documentary method.