چكيده لاتين
Afghanistan is a country full of turmoil; it has seen different political periods and it can be said that the social life of the people is always affected by politics. A country that has always been the subject of discussion due to its unique geographical location and the desire for power of politicians has caused them to wage war and bloodshed to surround that region. It is natural that the people of a war-torn country plan their life priorities based on their basic and fundamental needs and seek to solve them and pay less attention to other things such as literature, which caresses the soul. Among them, of course, there have been people who, in addition to the basic concerns of their lives, have not been free from literature and culture and have created valuable works. In these works, like a history book, what has happened to these people is described and has led to the creation of works that have exhibited the culture and literature of Afghan society.
This country has different ethnicities and this diversity of ethnicity makes it display a richer culture than itself. As every ethnicity has its own unique culture and spares no effort to record and preserve it.
Babrak Arghand was a contemporary Afghan writer who created valuable works and depicted the features and behavior of his homeland in his writings; Arghandʹs works are divided into two parts before and after emigration. The works created after emigration are more popular and famous, including the books Kaftar Bazan, Safar Pardengan Bi-Wail, Pahlevan Murad and Espi Ke Asil Nab, and Laban Shaitan. By studying 6 works by the author that were available, 3 works were selected to extract and classify various items of popular culture and literature such as proverbs, allusions, etymologies, sounds, songs and couplets, riddles, food, clothing, customs and traditions, and games, etc.
selected books; The novel Kaftarbazan is 406 pages long, the short novel A Woman from the Dormitory is 250 pages long, and the short story collection The Frozen Man is 174 pages long.
The value of studying and examining popular culture and literature in the authorʹs works is that, firstly, it helps to record and preserve them, and they are not forgotten in the midst of wars and changes, and secondly, it is a basis for other people to become familiar with the culture and literature of Afghan society. For this reason, the author has tried to classify the items found in the and the other is folk culture. It is worth mentioning that no research with this title has been conducted on Babrak Arghandʹs books before, and if anyone has mentioned proverbs or allusions or other items, it was only a case-by-case and personal opinions. The research method in this thesis was library and field, and in some cases, he did not neglect searching on Internet databases.
