an approach to the persian history-oriented persian novel

emphasizing collective memory and based on bakhtin's idea of the dialogical principle and multi-voice novelistic discourse, as well as considering the idea of the perspectival truth of historical fact, the present paper deals with the capacity of the history-oriented novel genre in introducing multiple perspectives of history. such an emphasize and description can be connected to analyzing the fiction logic of persian history-oriented novels (in terms of closeness or distance from the capacity in question). thus, first some subjects such as collective memory, narrative approach, and the concept of the history-oriented novel will be discussed. then the persian history-oriented novel, particularly its flourish era in the 1960s, will be traced. and eventually the dialogical principle of novel genre is generally emphasized. also, the capacity of such a principle in the history-oriented novel genre is considered with more details. however, what is introduced here is more a “sketch” that needs more time to be fully described and completed.