Roaming; Lived Experience in Transition and Halt The Analysis of Roaming Subject in “I’m probably Lost” and “Yousefabad, Thirty Third Avenue” Novels

Roaming is a phenomenon of modern life and experience and also a possibility to be in the city/ street. An existence in halt and an experience in hurry, a paradoxical life of being viewer and viewed, of desire to be lost and found, of perception without concentration. City and roaming subject find meaning and identity in interaction, intertwined link and exactness with each other. City gets spatial in subject’s strolls and it is studied and read as text or human body. The present article has dealt with reading and analysis of two novels; Sara Salar’s “I’m probably Lost” and Sina Dadkhah’s “Yousefabad, Thirty Third Avenue” from “roaming subject” viewpoint. It shows how city’s components and phenomena such as passages, park statues, streets, etc. are read and narrated by story characters as text and also experienced as the physical in relation to characters’ perspective, regrets, concerns, and memories. City/ Tehran is the pivotal character in both novels which turns into a surreal landscape in daydreaming and imaginative power of stroller parallel to present life and yesterday’s memories.  Characters’ roaming whether in afoot roaming case of Saman, Neda and Leila Jahed or in automobile roaming of Hamed Nejat and Gandom, which is a new style of roaming, narrates an unusual and different and a special relation of subjects’ attachment to city/ street.