5/20/2023 0 Comments Simin daneshvar savushun![]() ![]() While Savushun is a unique piece of literature that transcends the boundaries of the historical community in which it was written, it is also the best single work for understanding modern Iran. ![]() Within basic Iranian paradigms, the characters play out the roles inherent in their personalities. The story is seen through the eyes of Zari, a young wife and mother, who copes with her idealistic and uncompromising husband while struggling with her desire for traditional family life and her need for individual identity.ĭaneshvar’s style is both sensitive and imaginative, while following cultural themes and metaphors. It is set in Shiraz, a town which evokes images of Persepolis and pre-Islamic monuments, the great poets, the shrines, Sufis, and nomadic tribes within a historical web of the interests, privilege and influence of foreign powers corruption, incompetence and arrogance of persons in authority the paternalistic landowner-peasant relationship tribalism and the fear of famine. Savushun chronicles the life of a Persian family during the Allied occupation of Iran during World War II. ![]()
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