Introducing and Reviewing the Novel Sūr-e Boz at the Goftār va Andisheh Lecture Series

Latin American literature is thoroughly intertwined with politics, and its political and social dimension is dominant. The fictional works of Vargas Llosa and Fuentes are examples that, while considering the history, identity, and society of the countries of this region, have also addressed politics and its critique. Despite its maximal entanglement with politics, and by avoiding sloganeering and extreme propaganda, fiction in Latin America is still read as literature and not as an explicit political manifesto. Moreover, these works are widely read, have become global, and have been translated into numerous languages. Whereas literature in Iran (in the 1950s and 1960s) merely took on a political burden, was thereby damaged, and was read far, far less. The renowned translator Abdollah Kowsari, who has translated more than thirty volumes of Latin American fiction, at the thirtieth session of the Goftār va Andisheh lecture series held at the Ettehād-e Mellat-e Irān Party (Fars region), with a brief review of Latin American history, examined the causes of the growth and flourishing of its literature.

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Audio of the speech by Abdollah Kowsari (novel translator)

Audio of the speech by Keyvan Narimani

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Introducing and Reviewing the Novel Sūr-e Boz at the Goftār va Andisheh Lecture Series

The Goftār va Andisheh Lecture Series – Session 30 – 22 November 2018

Shiraz – Qasr-e Dasht Street, Alley 39, No. 50, Office of the Ettehād-e Mellat Party, Fars Region

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Title: Sūr-e Boz

Subject: 20th-century Spanish fiction

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa

Translator: Abdollah Kowsari

Publisher: Nashr-e Elm

Format: Octavo

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