A RETREAT TO A WORLD OF IMAGINATION FARNOOSH MOSHIRI'S AT THE WALL OF THE ALMIGHTY:
Journal Title: Academic Research International - Year 2013, Vol 4, Issue 5
Abstract
The writings of Farnoosh Moshiri mainly deal with the relationship of some individuals with the political regime in Iran in the period before and after the 1979 revolution and what these characters encounter of suffering because of the regime. This issue has been dealt with by a lot of Iranian writers like Azar Nafisi, Shahriar Mandanipour, and Bozrog Alavi who have tackled the political aspect in their works. While characters in the writings of Moshiri, in addition to their political resistance, are clinging and retreating to a world of imagination because it is related to memories of the past that enable them to remember their identity and humanity. This aspect has not been dealt with by a lot of writers. This paper deals with Moshiri's view of the retreat to a world of imagination since it constitutes significance to the main character's relation to his Iranian identity. Later, in the novel the reader becomes aware of the fact that the character's relation with the world of imagination symbolizes the suffering that the Iranian expatriates face and their attempts to cling to their reality by retreating to their past. Moshiri believes that the world of imagination in which the character lives is the only refuge for escaping from the bitter reality. The main character is analyzed in more than one phase in which he retreats to the world of imagination differently; for example, at one phase he remembers his family, at another he just hallucinates and imagines attempting to survive the bitter reality of prison and sometimes he tries to remember his identity in order to lessen the pain of the experience he is undergoing.
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Raghad Al-Ma'ani
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