ترقی پسنداردو افسانہ: ایک تجزیہ

PROGRESSIVE URDU SHORT STORY: AN ANALYSIS

Abstract

The progressive movement began in 1936, but the publication of “Angaray” in 1932 can be called the forerunner of the progressive literary movement. Because after “Soz-e-Watan” this is the first collection of short stories in which anxiety against the stagnation prevailing in society was systematically and consciously expressed. Otherwise, in the first decades of the twentieth century, Urdu short stories could not be completely freed from the narrative atmosphere and reformist and romantic color. On the one hand, Sidarshan, Azam Karivi, Hamidullah Afsar, Ali Abbas Hussaini and Professor Muhammad Mujeeb were writing short stories, influenced by Premchand and his moral and reformist color; Those who have the art of carving their idols from the soft clay of the earth, on the other hand, Sajjad Haydar Yildirim and his fellow Nawa Sultan Haydar Josh and representatives of subtle literature, Niaz Fatehpuri and Majnu Gorakhpuri, were engaged in constructing an imaginary atmosphere and a heavenly world through their stories. All these storytellers were breathing in an imaginary atmosphere and were engaged in the process of reflecting the Platonic theory of love, unveiling the extraterrestrial concept of beauty, and taking a cursory look at phenomena