5/28/2023 0 Comments Savushun by Simin Daneshvar![]() His passionate attacks on the corrupting influence of Western culture on Iranian society proved, with the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Iran a few years later, to have been prophetic. The novel is dedicated to her late husband, Jalal Al Ahmad, also a renowned fiction writer. ![]() It was Savushun, however, that established hers as a distinct literary voice. Simin Daneshvar, who was born in 1921, has been writing fiction as well as essays on aesthetics and on classical Persian literature since the early 1950s. Such a prospect is even more intriguing because the novel is written from a woman's point of view, by an Iranian woman writer whose life covers one of the most turbulent periods in Iran's history. ![]() For Western readers the novel not only offers an example of contemporary Iranian fiction it also provides a rare glimpse of the inner workings of an Iranian family. SINCE its publication 20 years ago, Savushun has enjoyed a wide circulation in Iran. ![]() SAVUSHUN A Novel About Modern Iran By Simin Daneshvar Translated from the Persian by M.R. ![]()
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