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Fantastic Realism is a genre which remind us of Russia and its great writer Dostoevsky. This genre has been developed in Iran among Iranian writers who have been familiar with the books of world literature, especially Russian literature. Fantastic Realism employs and combines reality and imagination, and while it concerns the reality related to human beings, it pictures that kind of reality which is internal. That is why the reader has some difficulty in finding the true meaning in such novels. Among the Iranian writers, Khosro Hamzavi is more inclined to this genre and the novel The City which Died under the Cedar Trees is one of the best novels of this writer which is written on the basis and reflects Fantastic Realism. The City which Died under the Cedar Trees is discussed in this paper based on Fantastic Realism using a descriptive-analytic method.

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The tree has a special importance in Persian poetry. Religious, mythological, moral, mystical and political cultural elements have propositions influenced by trees. After water and the sun, the tree is an important phenomenon from which special literary elements and situations are created. With the emergence of various political events in the last century, on the one hand, and the creation of many ideas and artistic styles, on the other hand, the creative ways of connecting natural phenomena with human elements are highlighted. The image of the tree in the new poem finds a new and multifaceted expression. Modernist poets give special roles to non-human elements, and from this middle, the tree of human-like kinship is the one that shows the evolution of human society in its stature. By analyzing and describing the poetic evidence in a library method, it is revealed in the thought of the selected poets that the tree is a diagram of personal failures, love, a medium of perception, an indicator of freedom, an indicator of the ecosystem, symbolism, the image of death and friendship, reflection Tyranny and denial of human existence in the rule of tyranny.
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