Emphasizing collective memory and based on Bakhtin's idea of the dialogical principle and multi-voice novelistic discourse, as well as considering the idea of the perspectival truth of historical fact, the present paper deals with the capacity of the history-oriented novel genre in introducing multiple perspectives of history. Such an emphasize and description can be connected to analyzing the fiction logic of Persian history-oriented novels (in terms of closeness or distance from the capacity in question). Thus, first some subjects such as collective memory, narrative approach, and the concept of the history-oriented novel will be discussed. Then the Persian history-oriented novel, particularly its flourish era in the 1960s, will be traced. And eventually the dialogical principle of novel genre is generally emphasized. Also, the capacity of such a principle in the history-oriented novel genre is considered with more details. However, what is introduced here is more a “sketch” that needs more time to be fully described and completed.
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