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Eighty Years Iranian Short Story
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Foreword
While tale telling in Iran traces back to the old times, the age of short story as an artistic genre is rather a new one and backed to the 1920s, when Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh published his first collection of short stories under the title of Once Upon a Time (Yeki Bood,Yeki Nabood). He is regarded as an initiator, because he employed simultaneously the techniques of European fiction with the Eastern tradition of tale telling and created the realistic stories. Fortunately short stories with the help of Hedayat's works found its right place in Iran culture and gradually appeared as one the strong branches of Iran Contemporary Literature. Bozorg Alavi, is the another author who like Hedayat improved the short stories by displaying and addressing the internal contradictions of his characters. Short story flourished with the publication of the works of Sadeq Choobak. Ebrahim Golestan and Jalal Al-e Ahmad in 1940s and the works of Simin Daneshvar, Bahram Sadeqi, Q'oalam Hossein Saedi in 1950s. The great writers such as Hooshang Golshiri; Mahmood Dolatabadi. Ahmad Mahmood and others gave a fresh impetus to this genre and granted it widespread popularity and made the 1960s as one of the most glorious era in Contemporary Persian Literature. Short story in the years after the 1987 revolution, found wider arena and Iranian writers both in domestics and abroad experienced fresh forms and techniques as well as new ideas and thoughts and created attractive works in various fields.
The present book is an anthology of the best short stories. Their writers have enriched the treasure of Persian Literature by creating the works which are not an imitation of the published works and they are different both from the standpoint of technique and context. Therefore the present selected stories introduce various branches of Iran fiction.
Eighty Years Iranian Short Story
Vol. 1 (1921- 1981)
Vol. 2 (1981- 2001)
Selected and Criticized
By Hasan Mirabedini
© KETAB-E-KHORSHID Publication 2007
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First Edition: 2005
Second Edition: 2007
ISBN-10: 964-7081-52-9 (VOL. 1)
ISBN-13: 978-964-7081-52-8 (VOL. 1)
ISBN-10: 964-7081-51-0 (2 VOL. SET)
ISBN-l3: 978-964-7081-51-1 (2 VOL. SET)
All right reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print or any other means, without written permission from the Publisher.
Printed and bound in Tehran.
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