Realism in Contemporary Fiction: A Case study of Pāiyz fasl-e āxare sāl ast (Fall Is the Last Season of the Year) by Nasim Marashi

The realism originated from the need felt by the philosophers, artists, and writers to reflect the realities of human life and to discover and describe the relationships between world phenomena. In literature this exploration and description takes place through the relations between characters and their relations with realistic components. The main issue in the present paper is how the components of the school of realism appear in the novel Pāiyz fasl-e āxare sāl ast (Fall Is the Last Season of the Year), as an example of contemporary fiction. Using descriptive analytical method and with the aim of influencing the realist components in the success of the novel, the authors succeeded in recognizing five realistic components such as content, political, social and economic situations, structure of the work and impartiality of the author in this work. The results of the research show that the realist components in this novel have been used as social realism in expressing important issues in the life of women in the society and as psychoanalytic realism in analyzing the behavior of characters and it has been used to a very small extent as black realism in the society in the issues of certain groups.