Representing the development in a novel named “Rahesh”

In his Persian Novel called "Rahesh",Reza Amirkhani considers managers'technocratic perspective as the main origin of unbalanced urban development and depicts its risks from a traditionalistic viewpoint.The main purposeof thisstudy is tostudy the reflectionsof traditional aswellas technocratic views toward development.Besides,through internal criticism and based on Frankfurt School's theoretical framework,it attempts to find an answerto the following question:"Howisthedevelopmentpatternportrayedin"Rahesh"againsttraditionalistandtechnocratic viewpoints?"In the aforementioned novel, these two different perspectives have been portrayed in the light of male and female protagonist of the story and their identity-related differences have been contrasted. A'la is the symbol of technocracy, is the defendant of technocratic development, renovation, and modern life style.Lia is the symbol of tradition,is asupporter of past structures and is critical of the dominance of modern system and structures on the natural environment.The only technocratic representation studied in Amirkhani's novel is the urban infrastructure. Hepromotestraditionalisticviewpointinconsideringtheculturalandsoftware-related aspectsof development.However,histraditionalistic ideolog yinassessmen to furban development is a mixture ofreligion mysticism, traditions and customs, nostalgic sensations, environmental concerns,etc. as awhole,his plot portrays the tradition discourse as being more sensible and justified;however,itprovestobeweakandpooragainstthepoweroftechnocracy.Especially,consideringthe fact that theadministrative power oftechnocratic discourse is much higher and tradition is faced with more significant challenges.The weak portrayal of thought conflict and the semantic system of both discourses, one-sided criticism over technocrats,uni-dimensional representation of dilemmas and ignorance of other factors has confronted the plot with aturbulent and deficient representation of the role played by various discourses in critical circumstances of urban development pattern and presented us with a perspective of bewilderment in Iran's national development plans.