A Stone On A Grave (Bibliotheca Iranica) - Softcover

Ahmad, Jalal Al-E

3.5

2,391 ratings by Goodreads

9781568592220: A Stone On A Grave (Bibliotheca Iranica)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568592221 ISBN 13: 9781568592220

Publisher: Mazda Pub, 2008

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

Sangi bar Guri �A Stone on a Grave� is a candid account of a male Iranian, in this case, a well-known essayist, fiction writer and socially and politically engaged intellectual, in his struggle to cope with his inability to produce offspring. In this book, Jalal Al-e Ahmad delves into the recesses of his own psyche to explore the roots of his identity as an Iranian male, his manhood. Consciously, he tries to uncover why having children to continue one's name and legacy, not unlike one's gravestone, should signify that he had existed, and why it should be of concern and importance after one's death. In a sense, he attempts to justify his own inability to have children. But, subconsciously, he reveals aspects of himself and his psyche that he may not have intended to reveal. This volume also includes an in-memoriam essay by the renowned writer and Al-e Ahmad's wife, Simin Daneshvar.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.