Jalal Āl-e Ahmad

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Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad in Tehran
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Jalal -e Āl-e Ahmad or Jalal Al-e Ahmad ( listen to ? / I English Jalal Al-e Ahmad ; PersianAudio file / audio sample جلال آل احمد, DMG Ǧalāl Āl-e Aḥmad ; *  December 2, 1923 in Tehran ; † September 9, 1969 ibid) was an Iranian modern writer .

He has written numerous novels , novels , short stories and essays , among other things , and has also translated several literary works by European authors into Persian . His work is characterized by a socially critical attitude and an ironic , sometimes sarcastic narrative style. Āl-e Ahmad was married to the writer Simin Daneschwar .

Life

Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad was born in 1923 as the son of a Shiite religious scholar in Tehran. After attending a state school and training as a teacher, which he completed in 1946, he studied Persian literature at the University of Tehran . He then joined the Tudeh party until 1948 , from which he later distanced himself. He later supported the national movement of Mossadegh to self-govern the country's oil industry. After Operation Ajax Āl-e Ahmad several years was arrested.

In 1950 he married the writer Simin Dāneschwar . By 1962 he published five volumes of short stories, three novels, several essays, travelogues and monographs in which he documented the life and culture of the poor people in remote areas of the country, such as the island of Charg .

In his works, Āl-e Ahmad addresses, among other things, the superstition of the common population and the westernization of the country. His essay Gharbzadegi , published in 1962, had a major impact on intellectual discourse in Iran. There he describes the westernization of Iran as a disease, but the adoption of western ideas and things is also thoughtless. Only the Shiite clergy (the legal scholars) eluded this influence. These explanations finally became the theoretical basis of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 , mainly through the further development of Ali Sharia .

Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad died in 1969, according to statements from his wife Simin Dāneschwar of poisoning by the SAVAK .

The Jalal Al-Ahmad literary award of the Iran Book House is named after him.

Work (selection)

Novels and short stories

  • The school principal (" The school principal ")
  • The Tale of Beehives ("The Tale of the Beehive")
  • The Cursing of the Land ("The Curse of the Land" or "The Curse of the Earth"), novel (1967)
  • A Stone upon a Grave ("A stone on a grave")

Short stories

  • The setar ("The Setar ")
  • Of our suffering ("About our suffering")
  • Someone else's child (" someone else's child ")
  • Pink nail-polish ("pink nail polish")
  • The Chinese flower pot ("The Chinese flower pot")
  • The postman ("The Postman")
  • The treasure ( "Treasure")
  • The Pilgrimage ("The Pilgrimage")
  • Sin ("sin")
  • Pandsch dāstān (“Five Stories”), Tehran 1976
    • The American Husband (German by Tuka Ramin), in: die horen 26 (1981), 2, edition 122, pp. 146-150

Essays

  • Seven essays ("Seven Essays")
  • Plagued by the West ( Gharbzadegi ; German "Die Westernization") ("Plagued by the West") 1962

Monographs

  • The Tati
  • Khark, the unique pearl of the Persian Gulf

Travel reports

  • A Straw in Mecca ("A Journey to Mecca")
  • A Journey to Russia ("A Journey to Russia")
  • A Journey to Europe ("A Journey to Europe")
  • The Land of Azrael ("The Land of Azrael ")
  • A Journey to America ("A Journey to America")

Translations

German editions

Web links

Commons : Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Web links
  2. ↑ Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad. In: die horen 26 (1981), 2, edition 122, p. 163
  3. ↑ Katajun Amirpur, Reinhard Witzke: Schauplatz Iran . 1st edition. Herder, Freiburg 2004, ISBN 3-451-05535-X , p. 62 ff .
  4. ↑ Wilfried Buchta: Shiites . Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag, Kreuzlingen / Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7205-2491-4 , p. 79 ff .
  5. ↑ Monika Gronke : History of Iran . 2nd Edition. CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-48021-7 , p. 106 f .
  6. ↑ http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Authors/AAhmad.html
  7. ↑ Khaneh Ketab (Iran Book House) . ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Brief description of the Iran Book House in English  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ketab.ir
  8. ↑ freely translated
personal data
SURNAME Āl-e Ahmad, Jalāl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ale Ahmad, Jalal; Al-e Ahmad, Jalal; Al-e Ahmad, Jalal; Ǧalāl Āl-e Aḥmad; جلال آل احمد (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian writer, translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran
DATE OF DEATH 9th September 1969
Place of death Tehran