Alavī, Bozorg

Autor: Alavī, Bozorg
Rok: 1904-1997

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Íránský spisovatel a překladatel.
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Bozorg Alavi (بزرگ علوی in Persian) (February 2, 1904 – February 18, 1997) was an influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual. He was a founding member of the communist Tudeh Party of Iran in the 1940s and – following the 1953 coup against Premier Mohammad Mossadegh – spent the rest of his life in exile in Germany, first during the Pahlavi regime, then returning to Germany once more following the 1979 revolution. His finest novel is Chashm'hā'yash (Her Eyes), which was published in Iran in 1952 and was subsequently banned. alavi was also a very close friend of Iran's famous writer "sadegh hedayat", these two created a literary groupwhen they were residing in paris called "sab'e group". although his novel "her eyes" is considered his masterpiece, alavi also wrote many other books which indeed are also perfect in their own style ; an example of this is the novel "chemdan" which was written under the influence of freudian psychology. his other novels "mirza", "53 nafar" and "gilemard" which is used in iranian textbooks for high-school. he did return to tehran after the revoloution but did not stay too long and decided to head back to Germany. Bozorg Alavi's contribution to Iranian Literature was profound and shall not be forgotten.