The present article is a sociological analysis of three novels of the war imposed in the 1980s: scorched earth by Ahmad Mahmoud , Winter 62 by Ismail Fasih , and In the Flames of Water by Morteza Mardiha. The fundamental concept in this article is "totality"."Totality" is a central concept in the Lukacsian tradition; Because one of the main problems of the sociology of the novel in the 20th century is to understand how to represent the social construction and its ideological forms in the "concrete totality" of the novel. Based on this, in this article, we have shown that the three mentioned novels are almost realistic novels that aim to represent "the totality of war". We have found out how the forms and social forces in the great event of "imposed war" have become "narrative representation" in the concrete totality of these novels and how the dialectic of "detail based on the misfortune of war/totality based on the transcendence of the necessity of defending the homeland" was in them. The form of these novels has been a synthesis for the essentialism of two idea-oriented and detail-oriented groups: the unfortunate and catastrophic components of war, although they are not denied and are represented in the most naked way possible, but remain at the level of their "detail"; And from their combination and connection and relationship with the "transcendental pillar", a whole emerges that is beyond the parts and does not conflict with war for the purpose of self-defense.