1957 -
Iranian writer and editor.
Abbas Maʿrufi was born in Tehran and graduated from Tehran University's Faculty of Fine Arts with a degree in dramatic arts. His novels and short stories experiment with psychoanalytic techniques, incorporating them into a clear and flowing narrative style. He published several collections of short stories in the 1980s and his first and most famous novel, Samfoni-ye Mordegan (Symphony of the dead), in 1989. Subsequent novels include Sal-e Bala (Year of catastrophes, 1992) and Peykar-e Farhad (Statute of Farhad, 1995). Maʿrufi edited the literary journal Gardoon in Tehran, but after the publication was closed by the government for "offending religious sensibilities," he left Iran for exile abroad. Since 1996, he has edited Gardoon in Europe.
Bibliography
Yavari, Houra. "Discourse in Psychoanalysis and Literature and Post-Revolutionary Iran: A Case of The Symphony of the Dead by Abbas Maʿrufi." Critique 7 (fall 1995): 101 - 111.
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