The Early Literary Reception of Ernest Hemingway in Iran

Atefeh Ghasemnejad, Alireza Anushiravani

Abstract


This essay investigates the dynamics that led to the literary reception of Ernest Hemingway before the Islamic Revolution in Iran. This article deploys reception studies as a branch of Comparative Literature with a focus upon conceptions of Siegbert Salomon Prawer and the practical method of George Asselineau to unearth the ideological, political, and historical milieu that embraced Hemingway’s literary fortune in Iran. This investigation, unprecedented in the study of Iranian literature, discusses how and why Hemingway was initially received in Iran. As such, the inception of literary fortune of Ernest Hemingway in Iran is examined by the contextual features, Persian literary taste, and the translator’s incentives that paved the way for this reception. This article also uncovers the reasons for the delay in the literary reception of Hemingway in Iran and discussed why some of Hemingway’s oeuvres enjoyed recognition while others were neglected by the Iranian readership.


Keywords


culture in transition, policy of simplification and purification, ideology of translator, Ebrahim Golestan, Sa’di Shirazi, Najaf Daryabandari

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.6n.1p.29

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