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Comparative literature is an interdisciplinary field of research that examines the relationship between the literatures of different nations, as well as the connections between literature and the arts and humanities. Iranian author Mahmoud Dowlatabadi and Jordanian (of Saudi origin) writer Abdel Rahman Munif focus extensively on rural life in their novels. In this study, relying on the principles of the American school of comparative literature and a descriptive-analytical method, we examine and analyze the novels Jā-ye Khāli-ye Soluch by Dowlatabadi and Al-Nihāyāt by Munif, both of which belong to the school of critical realism, at both structural and thematic levels. We conclude that the two authors, despite having no direct connection due to temporal and spatial distance, provide a meticulous examination of their fictional worlds, with their stories sharing many common themes, such as rural poverty, villagers' ways of dealing with crises, and more. The authors aim to depict the economic, social, and political conditions governing rural communities and their confrontation with culture, modernity, progress, and technology. In both novels, the villages undergo transformation through these encounters, but these changes disrupt the old order while the new order remains unstable.