This study investigates socialist romanticism in the novel “Rijal fi Al-shams” from Ghassan Kanfani who is a talented Palestinian author in the field of fiction literature. In this book, he often develops concepts such as sympathy, resistance, self-sacrifice and endurance and through this, in the form of the story of socialist romanticism, he explains the situation of the society and criticizes the performance of the corrupt government and the poverty of the people. He also mentions the irregularities of the society, the rights of the vulnerable people, imperialism, the confrontation between tradition and modernity, and beautifully depicted damages which have been caused on the economy, culture and his society foundation by global Zionism. One of the outstanding features of this genre is that one can achieve the author's style in narration, narrator, general characteristics and using the author's specific techniques. Therefore, in this article, the authors have tried to explain the principles of socialist realism in this story by using features such as strong narrative action and themes, time, place, volume and type of narrative expression as well as cause and effect relationship between phenomena and concepts such as the emotional expression of the narration, dissatisfaction with the current situation and disappearing in other spaces, reflect the anti-authoritarianism in this story more than before. The research shows that the authors, by studying the frameworks of socialist romanticism and also applying new ideas centered on socialist realism, have come to the conclusion that new genres have given priority to the promotion of people's intellectual level. Therefore, the updated content of such stories intends to design a new achievement by deconstructing the old narrative genres that do not meet the needs of today's society, in order to enrich the culture of their society in the world.
The research method in this study is descriptive-analytical which has been analyzed based on parameters appropriate to socialist romanticism in narrative works and also based on inductive conclusion - reaching from part to whole.
