چكيده لاتين :
If we apply the name of novel to some of the first imperfect Persian attempts in this field, we can stand that Persian novel is now about one hundred years old. This literary genre that Iranian writers first acquired during the social, Political and cultural changes initiated by the Constitutional Revolution (Mashrute) as the result of the translations of the European historical novels, has till now been explored from different points of view, still, social criticism approach towards the novel hasnʹt so far been much of the scholars interest. Critical review of the relationship between the Iranian society and Persian novel, or in the other words, influence of the society in the contents of the novel and the impression of the novel in the society, relationship between critical approaches and technical value of the Persian novel, question of the social and moral engagement of the writers and the way of presentation of the countryʹs social, political and economic changes in the contemporary novel, these are the problems of present article. In this research the process of forming, development and, sometimes, perfection of the Persian novel has been divided into four distinct periods of time to obtain the possibility of comparison and evaluation of the relationship between the novel and the society with regard to social changes in the historical period.
