نقد المجتمع من خلال المجموعة القصصية (خونى اور دوسرے افسانے : قصص دموية وغيرها) لاختر انصارى "دراسة تحليلية" مع الترجمة

A Critical Analysis of Social Criticism in Akhtar Ansari’s Short Story Collection Khooni Aur Doosre Afsane (Bloody Stories and Other Short Stories)

Abstract

This article is a critical study of Akhtar Ansari’s short story collection Khooni aur Dusre Afsane (Bloody and Other Stories), written by Dr. Nevin Amro Hassanin Mnaza Ali of the Urdu Department at Al-Azhar University. It begins with Ansari’s life, from his birth in Badaun in 1909 and his harsh childhood under a strict father, to his unhappy marriage, his teaching career at Aligarh Muslim University, and his death in 1988. The study then examines how the stories criticize society. The first theme is opportunism and exploitation, shown through a poor peddler who becomes rich by lending money at high interest and seizing his debtors’ homes. The second is the lack of commitment, illustrated by a man left waiting for hours in a lawyer’s house. The third is the abuse of power by the police, who humiliate and rob ordinary people. The fourth is hypocrisy, seen in a man who rises to high office by destroying innocent lives. The author concludes that Ansari writes with a reformist purpose, exposing social evils so they can be eliminated, and that his realistic and emotionally powerful stories aim to build a just and ethical society.

Keywords: Akhtar Ansari, short story, opportunism, ordinary people, ethical society