World literature and the phenomenon of suicide.

Literature has always been filled with death, and even filled with suicides of fictional characters. Which one of us, as readers, has not witnessed the forced exit of literary heroes in the pages of novels; from Shakespeare’s characters to the multitude of characters in Dostoevsky’s novels, from Goethe’s Werther to Romain Gary, and from Madame Bovary to Anna Karenina and beyond.
But can we only find these types of deaths in literary works? Have these apparent suicides not been simply murders committed by the authors? Unfortunately, this is not the case.
Researchers have found a significant relationship between the profession of writing and suicide, meaning that if we compare the statistics of individuals with various backgrounds and the frequency of suicide, writers and artists will be at the top of the list.
Therefore, it is not difficult to find and list the names of writers who have committed suicide, from Jerzy Kosinski and Yukio Mishima to Stefan Zweig and Arthur Koestler

Suicide in contemporary literature and Iranian writers.

Based on what has been said, it is clear that Iranian literature and writers are not following the usual global trend. From the stories of Sadeq Hedayat, one of the pioneers of contemporary Iranian writers, to the books of young writers in our country, many characters can be found who have committed suicide. These suicides are not limited to the world of books and abstraction. From Sadeq Hedayat, the father of modern Iranian fiction, to Abbas Nalbandian, Islam Kazemiye, Kazem Tina, Hassan Honarmandi, Mansour Khaksaar, Ghazaleh Alizadeh, Morteza Kalantarian, Kourosh Asadi, and many others, they have all ended their lives by their own hands.

However, it is believed that the situation and motivations of Iranian writers may be different from their colleagues, especially Western ones. In his famous speech and essay, “Youthfulness in Contemporary Persian Prose,” delivered