The Ontological Narrative of Modern Man: The Analysis of Bahram Sadeghi’s Stories based on the Story of Situation

Modernity and the paradoxical consequences of modern experience, especially the modern patterns of creating a homogenous society, have detached humans from their individuality and personal identity. In such a situation, the victims are the subjects and objects who are doomed to live in a socially disconnected world. Existentialism and the story of situation have both reacted, employing their own philosophical and literary devices, to loneliness, stress, fear and absurdity of the modern experience. The current study has investigated Bahram Sadeghi’s novel “Malakout” [The Heavenly Kingdom] and two short stories by using the parameters of the story of situation and Kafka’s worldview. The paper attempted to show how the characters of these stories live in vain in the routines of everyday life and how they are trapped in situations which neither they can fully comprehend nor they .are able to set themselves free. In search of self and the meaning of love and peace, they try hopelessly to exit the labyrinth of modern life. Such a situation has affected every aspect of their lives and seemingly death is the only way out.