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Poetik der Iranischen Revolution von 1978–1979 im Roman Die ersten Tage der Welt (2019) von Salem Khalfani

Publication date: 02.09.2020

Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2020, Volume 15, Issue 3, pp. 189-200

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.20.015.12177

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Anna Dąbrowska
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
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Poetik der Iranischen Revolution von 1978–1979 im Roman Die ersten Tage der Welt (2019) von Salem Khalfani

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The aim of this paper is to examine how given literary devices correspond with the fatalistic portrayal of the Iranian Revolution of 1978–1979 in Salem Khalfani’s novel Die ersten Tage der Welt. The fatalism, regarded as a social necessity and dependence of the drives, is emphasised by the theatrum mundi metaphor as well as the similes comparing the revolutionary events with the dynamic processes which can be found in the world of nature. The outcomes of the revolution are, however, connected with the poetics of lifelessness. Underneath the manifested layer of the novel, which emphasises the fatalism, there is also a covert layer of the text, which suggests that the narrator may be rationalising and denying any guilt for taking part in such a destructive mass event.

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Information: Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2020, Volume 15, Issue 3, pp. 189-200

Article type: Original article

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German: Poetik der Iranischen Revolution von 1978–1979 im Roman Die ersten Tage der Welt (2019) von Salem Khalfani
English:
Poetics of the Iranian Revolution of 1978–1979 in the novel Die ersten Tage der Welt (2019) by Salem Khalfani

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8250-2762

Anna Dąbrowska
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8250-2762 Orcid
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Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 02.09.2020

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