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کتاب آدمهای غایب
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First published January 1, 2007
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About the author
تقی مدرسی
6 books16 followersTaghi Modarressi was born in 1932 (۱۳۱۱) in Tehran, Iran, the son of a lawyer. Two years after the young Taghi had begun elementary school, his father passed away, leaving behind a widow and three sons who subsequently moved into Modarresi’s maternal grandfather’s house. Later his grandfather’s personal library provided him with a wealth of reading material, some of which inspired his literary creations.
Taghi entered Tehran University Medical School, earned a medical degree, where he started also writing, became chief editor of Sadaf, a prestigious literary journal. Modarressi’s literary debut novel, Yakolyā wa tanhāi-e u (Yakolya and Her Loneliness, 1955) was published in Iran when he was student. Modarresi’s interest in psychology drew him to researching zār, the traditional means of treating psychological illness, practiced in the Persian Gulf region of Iran. While visiting villages and collecting materials for his thesis, Modarresi had an encounter that changed the course of his life. Suspecting him of revolutionary and leftist motives, the secret police detained and questioned him and confiscated his tape recordings and notes.
Becoming frustrated, Modarresi left Persia in 1959 for his post doctorate trainings in psychiatry and child psychiatry in Wichita, Kansas, took a residency at Duke University (1961-1963), which is where he met Miss Anne Tyler (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...),
a popular American writer in 1963. They married and soon moved to Montreal, where he began a residency at McGill University, was a professor of University of Maryland.
In 1982, he founded the Center for Infant Study, which is one of the few that offers psychiatric care for children under 5. In the late 1980s, Dr. Modarressi founded the Coldspring Family Center Therapeutic Nursery, housed at a Head Start center in Pimlico, which attempts to intervene as early as possible in the lives of children who have suffered emotionally scarring traumas. He died because of cancer in Baltimore, 1376 / 1997 at age 65. Anne Tyler wrote her memoir of living with Taghi in form of a novel in "Back when we were gone".
In the years that Modarresi devoted to settling into his new life and profession, the only significant literary work he published was Šarif jān, šarif jān (1961). It was not until after the 1979 revolution and the mass migration of Iranians to the United States that Modarresi found himself drawn back to fiction. He associates his return to writing with the discovery of what he calls a “new internal voice”. This new voice enabled him to recover his literary voice in Persian and determined his approach to the translation of the two of his novels, Ketāb-e ādamhā-ye ghāyeb (The book of Absent People, New York, 1986), and Ādāb-e ziārat (The Pilgrim’s Rules of Etiquette, New York, 1989). The two novels begin to link the theme of inner exile with the realities of cross-cultural existence. Modarresi’s last, and as yet unpublished novel, Azrā-ye Khalwat nešin (The Virgin of Solitude), also revolves around the themes of loneliness and inner exile that runs through Modarresi’s fiction.
Taghi Modarressi is arguably the best example of a bilingual writer who wrote and published both in Persian and English. He is a good example of an active scientific / creative mind, like Bahram Sadeghi (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...)
and Gholamhossein Saedi (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...),
lasted from Yakolia 1330's / 1950's to Azra of 1370's / 1990's, with a 24 years of break in between!
As Modarresi was engaged in writing The Virgin of Solitude (Azrā-ye Khalwat nešin), he was diagnosed with chronic lymphoma. In 1996 he retired from the University of Maryland and devoted more time to his fiction. He succeeded in completing The Virgin of Solitude before his death on April 23, 1997. Modarresi is survived by his wife, Anne Tyler, and two daugh
Taghi entered Tehran University Medical School, earned a medical degree, where he started also writing, became chief editor of Sadaf, a prestigious literary journal. Modarressi’s literary debut novel, Yakolyā wa tanhāi-e u (Yakolya and Her Loneliness, 1955) was published in Iran when he was student. Modarresi’s interest in psychology drew him to researching zār, the traditional means of treating psychological illness, practiced in the Persian Gulf region of Iran. While visiting villages and collecting materials for his thesis, Modarresi had an encounter that changed the course of his life. Suspecting him of revolutionary and leftist motives, the secret police detained and questioned him and confiscated his tape recordings and notes.
Becoming frustrated, Modarresi left Persia in 1959 for his post doctorate trainings in psychiatry and child psychiatry in Wichita, Kansas, took a residency at Duke University (1961-1963), which is where he met Miss Anne Tyler (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...),
a popular American writer in 1963. They married and soon moved to Montreal, where he began a residency at McGill University, was a professor of University of Maryland.
In 1982, he founded the Center for Infant Study, which is one of the few that offers psychiatric care for children under 5. In the late 1980s, Dr. Modarressi founded the Coldspring Family Center Therapeutic Nursery, housed at a Head Start center in Pimlico, which attempts to intervene as early as possible in the lives of children who have suffered emotionally scarring traumas. He died because of cancer in Baltimore, 1376 / 1997 at age 65. Anne Tyler wrote her memoir of living with Taghi in form of a novel in "Back when we were gone".
In the years that Modarresi devoted to settling into his new life and profession, the only significant literary work he published was Šarif jān, šarif jān (1961). It was not until after the 1979 revolution and the mass migration of Iranians to the United States that Modarresi found himself drawn back to fiction. He associates his return to writing with the discovery of what he calls a “new internal voice”. This new voice enabled him to recover his literary voice in Persian and determined his approach to the translation of the two of his novels, Ketāb-e ādamhā-ye ghāyeb (The book of Absent People, New York, 1986), and Ādāb-e ziārat (The Pilgrim’s Rules of Etiquette, New York, 1989). The two novels begin to link the theme of inner exile with the realities of cross-cultural existence. Modarresi’s last, and as yet unpublished novel, Azrā-ye Khalwat nešin (The Virgin of Solitude), also revolves around the themes of loneliness and inner exile that runs through Modarresi’s fiction.
Taghi Modarressi is arguably the best example of a bilingual writer who wrote and published both in Persian and English. He is a good example of an active scientific / creative mind, like Bahram Sadeghi (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...)
and Gholamhossein Saedi (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...),
lasted from Yakolia 1330's / 1950's to Azra of 1370's / 1990's, with a 24 years of break in between!
As Modarresi was engaged in writing The Virgin of Solitude (Azrā-ye Khalwat nešin), he was diagnosed with chronic lymphoma. In 1996 he retired from the University of Maryland and devoted more time to his fiction. He succeeded in completing The Virgin of Solitude before his death on April 23, 1997. Modarresi is survived by his wife, Anne Tyler, and two daugh
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November 25, 2022
کتاب آدم های غایب داستان نسل دوم و سوم از یک خاندان اشرافی است که در اختلاف با یکدیگر به سر می برند. خان بابا دکتر، روزهای آخر عمر خود را سپری می کند و از فرزندش می خواهد به دنبال پسرنانتی اش بگردد. پسری که برخی می گویند راننده کامیون شده و برخی می گویند زندانی سیاسی است. این خاندان با همه ارتباطات در هم گره خورده شان و تضادها و تناقض هایشان و با ترکیبی از افکار و رفتارهای ضد و نقیضشان ماجراهای داستان را شکل می دهند.
November 26, 2011
"The Book of Absent People; life of a family through the eyes of a young male. Hādi Bešārat is a retired university professor who learns ancient languages and history. This leads him to increas withdrawal from reality into a distant past and dead languages. Bešārat’s letters to his American friend traces of a journey within, associated with angels within his spiritual world."
"کتاب آدم های غایب" (1368)؛ رمانی ست از هم گسیخته با پرسش هایی اصولی که در پایان در ذهن خواننده شکل می گیرد؛ چرا این شخصیت ها چنین رفتار می کنند؟ چرا این وقایع رخ می دهند؟ چرا شخصیت ها درگیر این وقایع می شوند؟ و چرا این گونه عکس العمل نشان می دهند؟ هدف نویسنده چیست؟ پایان یک دوره و آغاز دوره ای دیگر؟ مرگ یک طبقه یا یک نظام، و تولد طبقه یا نظامی تازه؟ بنابراین این کدام دوره است که به آخر می رسد و کدام طبقه است که از میان می رود؟ کدام گروه و کدام دوره است که آغاز می شود؟ خان بابا دکتر، خان داداش ضیاء، مسعود ساواکی، دشمنی دو خانواده ی "سردار اژدری" و "حشمت نظام"، و اعقاب قجری و... یعنی پایان دوران اشرافیت و خان خانی؟
"کتاب آدم های غایب" (1368)؛ رمانی ست از هم گسیخته با پرسش هایی اصولی که در پایان در ذهن خواننده شکل می گیرد؛ چرا این شخصیت ها چنین رفتار می کنند؟ چرا این وقایع رخ می دهند؟ چرا شخصیت ها درگیر این وقایع می شوند؟ و چرا این گونه عکس العمل نشان می دهند؟ هدف نویسنده چیست؟ پایان یک دوره و آغاز دوره ای دیگر؟ مرگ یک طبقه یا یک نظام، و تولد طبقه یا نظامی تازه؟ بنابراین این کدام دوره است که به آخر می رسد و کدام طبقه است که از میان می رود؟ کدام گروه و کدام دوره است که آغاز می شود؟ خان بابا دکتر، خان داداش ضیاء، مسعود ساواکی، دشمنی دو خانواده ی "سردار اژدری" و "حشمت نظام"، و اعقاب قجری و... یعنی پایان دوران اشرافیت و خان خانی؟
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