Iranian Freaks: Embodying the Violence of the Times in Contemporary Iranian Fiction

• Duvigneau, Julie ^[1]
  1. [1] INALCO, CERMOM Paris
• Localización: Oriente Moderno, ISSN 0030-5472, Vol. 104, Nº. 1-2, 2024, págs. 14-38
• Idioma: italiano
• DOI: 10.1163/22138617-12340339
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  • Abstract Malformed, mutilated, dismembered, blinded, paralyzed, characters in contemporary Iranian literature are subjected to brutal abuse. This article aims to show that these torments, through the work of seven authors: Ṣādeq Hedāyat, Hušang Golširi, Bahrām Ṣādeqi, Reżā Barāheni, Qāżi Rabiḥāvi, Esmāʿil Faṣiḥ and Nasim Marʿ⁠aši, all over whom the shadow of Hedāyat looms, are the incarnation of historical violence in the flesh of contemporary Iranian literature. I argue that the metamorphoses of violence that run through Iranian literature in the 20th and early 21st centuries, beyond the differences in meaning it may have, highlight a poetics of cruelty that is particularly evident in the texts of these authors.

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