A Brief Analysis of Modern Representative Voices of Urdu Short Story

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Abstract

In every period of Urdu short story, two angles of view have been accepted and popular. One of them is the bearer of the terrestrial trend and under it the fiction writer has seen the phenomena of life very closely. Thus, the roughness of the phenomena has first come under the grasp of his consciousness. This view is like a form of examining the environment and its characters with the help of a microscope and it can easily be called SHORT RANGE VIEW. The second angle of view is the advocate of the imaginative trend and under its influence the fiction writer has cast a fleeting glance at the surroundings from the height of imagination and thus his eyes have not concentrated and stopped at any particular place or point but have gone on to cover the whole. This view is a form of examining the environment with the help of a telescope and if it is called LONG RANGE VIEW then the matter becomes clear. Both these ways of seeing were prevalent at the very beginning of Urdu short story, but in the earlier period the imaginative tendency was relatively stronger and the reason for this was that Urdu fiction was associated with the tradition of storytelling, in which the flight of imagination was of utmost importance. Of course, ignoring everyday life was not the creed of the storyteller, and this was because he himself was a man of flesh and blood and could not deny the phenomena of the environment, which were scattered all around him and were affecting his consciousness every moment. However, since hundreds of years of renunciation and dervish tendencies had fostered the tendency to withdraw from earthly phenomena at the higher level, he was forced to follow this trend. This era contains some new writers e.g Ghayas Ahmad Gudi, Qazi Abdul Sattar, Abid Sohail, Iqbal Majeed, Iqbal Mateen, Jailani Bano, Zameer ud deen Ahmad, Joganderpal, Ram Ammal, Ruten Singh, Kalam Haideri, Anwar Azeem, Qaiser Tamkeen, Ahmed Yousaf and Aoni Saeed as well.

Key Words: Modern Short story, phenomena of life, SHORT RANGE VIEW, LONG RANGE VIEW, Ghayas Ahmad Gudi, Qazi Abdul Sattar, Abid Sohail, Iqbal Majeed, Iqbal Mateen, Jailani Bano, Zameer ud deen Ahmad, Joganderpal, Ram Ammal, Ruten Singh, Kalam Haideri, Anwar Azeem, Qaiser Tamkeen,Ahmed Yousaf, Aoni Saeed.