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Existentialism is one of the philosophical schools that, due to its emphasis and special view on "human", find its way into literature, especially into novels and plays. This school was first founded in Germany by Kierkegaard in the 19th century (Rasekhi langaroudi, 2018:18), and then Jean-Paul Sartre spread it in France. In this school, the human is a lonely and abandoned being who has to do something for himself because there is no helper or necessary existence. Existentialism became popular in Iran in the forties and fifties and many were influenced by it and created many works inspired by it. Jalal Al-Ahmed was one of the intellectuals and writers of that period, who was influenced by Sartre's thoughts at some point in his activities. As a committed writer, he described the suffering of a simple porter worker in the short story "The life who escaped" in order to find a way out of the chaos and social injustice. This article tries to examine the concept of suffering in this story and in this way evaluate the influence of Sartre's thoughts on Al Ahmed. In this research, the mentioned subject has been analyzed in a descriptiveanalytic way and with a comparative approach, using some elements and components of the school of existentialism. The results of this research indicate that the suffering that Al-Ahmed portrays in his story is not due to frustration and passivity, but rather by portraying this suffering, he seeks to find a way to improve and enhance the troubled situation of the workers and such viewpoint stems from the theory of "committed literature" that Sartre talks about. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
