Volume 00: STARTUP

PARSAGON: The Persian Literature Review

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Table of Contents

PROEM

• In Fine Frenzy Roling  
  

PENDULUM

• R.I.P. Farrokh Ghaffari (1921 – 2006)

• Homage to the Singer of Naseria

• December 26: Day of Sorrow, Day of Death

PROFILE

• Sadeq Hedayat [1903-1951]
• Reza Ghassemi [b.1949]
• Reza Amirkhani [b.1973]

PODIUM :: Top 7×7

• Mohammad Tolouei Recommends
• Hossein Sanapour Recommends
• Let Us Steal a Lease of Life: Interview with Martin P. Turner

PRIZE

• Badiozzaman Forouzanfar Award

PAPYRUS :: The Bookshelf

1. The Oasis of Now: Selected Poems by Sohrab Sepehri [tr. Kazim Ali, Mohammad Jafar Mahallati]
2. The Baron’s Melancholy Blues [Asghar Abdollahi]
3. Scorpion on Andimeshk Railway Stairs, or This Train is Bleeding, Sir! [Hossein  Morteza’eian Abkenar]
4. The Spell Chanted by Lambs [Reza Ghassemi] [tr. Erfan Mojib]
5. Men at Work: Cinematic Lessons from Abbas Kiarostami
6. How to Survive in Tehran
7. The Blind Owl [Sadeq Hedayat]