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One of the functions of Art, is to represent the material and spiritual realities of man’s life. This is different from art to history that the Artist, with its own selection and interpretation and reporting, provides the apparent irregularities of facts in a reasonable, limited, measured and disciplined design. The novel “Time captive“(Asir-e-Zaman), written by Ismail Fasih is among this category of works of art. Verily the objective reality was decomposed and spread among unlimited number of contrasting subjectivities. Realism means Today’s man in modern civilization. So Fasih using certain methods has written a realistic novel. Ideological  attitude, according to the newspapers and historical figures, spoken language, detailed explanation of the events, creating types, Interpretation of the virulent happenings in society, the appearance of the life course and especially the characters’ death, a variety of characters with different  behaviors, the appearance of  the author's own character in the novel, the natural appearance of  characters’  interactions with others, applying caricatured composition, delivering philosophical terms, defining man as an authorized creature, highlighting the emotional affairs, perfect background and the rhetoric figures  are some of methods to verisimilitude in this novel.  This study results to express that the novel is a work of art tending to social realism.
 

Keywords: Ismail Fasih, Asir-e-Zaman, Social Realism

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