La funzione narrativa del viaggio in un romanzo persiano di epoca qajar: il Siyahatname-ye Ebrahim Beyg (Diario di viaggio di Ebrahim Beyg) di Zeyno'l-'Abedin Marage'i

The Siyâhatnâme-ye Ebrâhim Beg is considered a literary event of great importance in the process of renewal of Persian literature and one of the earliest social novels in modern Persian literature. This work has also played a key role in the socio-political events of modern Iran. The Siyâhatnâme marks the beginning of modern Persian prose, it is deeply innovative in content, but it is also significant because of the close connections with traditional forms of narrative, like that of the journey. In this article we highlight the innovative as well as the classical aspects of the work and specifically we examine the role of travel as a narrative device that the author uses to support its political discourse and to conduct a critical analysis of the conditions of Iran at the turn of the twentieth century