A Comparative Study on Myth in Selected Novels by Alejo Carpentier and Mahmoud Dowlat Abadi

Myths play a major role in the creation of literary works, especially novels. "The Kingdom of this World" and " Age of Enlightenment " (El Siglo de las Luces) by Alejandro Carpathian and Mahmoud Dowlat Abadi's "Gone are the days of the Elderly" are among the novels that have created a combination of real, imaginary and mythical worlds in the style of magical realism. Under the realistic and historical layer of these novels, the framework of the mythical world has a serious and continuous presence. Accordingly, the main purpose of this article is a comparative study of myths in the three novels. Alejo Carpentier and Mahmoud Dowlat Abadi are writers from two different nations with two different languages ​​between whom there is no historical relationship. In contemporary times, these two writers did not know each other and were not influenced by each other's works, ideas, currents and genres, style and structure of storytelling. That’s why the fundamental actions and concepts of myths in the hidden layers of these three novels are studied and analyzed in the present article and the method is analytical – descriptive in the framework of the American School of Comparative Literature approach.