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Zbigniew, A Persian Hapless Metamorphosis
Zbigniew: The Failed Metamorphosis of an Iranian is a story about the lives of several Iranians in exile—individuals striving to rediscover themselves in a new homeland. However, the new country doesn’t embrace them as it seems to, nor can these Iranian immigrants come to terms with their past. The narrator, Babak, is the son of a bookseller. Babak’s father, Kaveh, was a seminary student in his youth, but in the 1960s, he abandoned religion and its teachings to join the communist movement. Babak’s mother, however, had traditional and mystical leanings. When Babak was still a teenager, his parents separated. His aunt was executed during the mass executions of the 1980s in Iran.
Zbigniew: The Failed Metamorphosis of an Iranian is a story about the lives of several Iranians in exile—individuals striving to rediscover themselves in a new homeland. However, the new country doesn’t embrace them as it seems to, nor can these Iranian immigrants come to terms with their past. The narrator, Babak, is the son of a bookseller. Babak’s father, Kaveh, was a seminary student in his youth, but in the 1960s, he abandoned religion and its teachings to join the communist movement. Babak’s mother, however, had traditional and mystical leanings. When Babak was still a teenager, his parents separated. His aunt was executed during the mass executions of the 1980s in Iran.
Babak holds a degree in archaeology, but due to his family’s background, he is unable to find work in any governmental institution in Iran. Working in a bookstore and growing up in an activist and intellectual family has shaped his critical perspective on everything. With his keen, inquisitive eye, Babak reexamines the world around him, constantly questioning everything. This critical nature profoundly affects his relationship with society and, more significantly, with his wife, Fariba, leading him into an ongoing internal and external struggle.
Babak is constantly searching for a stable foundation for himself, but no matter what he turns to, his critical outlook soon reveals its instability. He delves deeply into the lives of other Iranian immigrants and people from different cultures, depicting both their flaws and their beauty. Babak sees the world as filled with falsehoods, corruption, and futility—to the point where not only does life seem meaningless to him, but he even finds suicide to be equally absurd.
About Author:
Ali Neghaban is a writer, literary researcher, and translator. He published his first essays and literary reviews in the 1990s in magazines like Takapu and Adineh. However, when the censorship of his novel, poetry collections, and other writings, alongside the closure of independent publications and increasing pressures, made living and writing in Iran exceedingly difficult, he was compelled to move to Canada.
His poems, short stories, and essays have been published in journals such as Adineh, Takapu, Jong-e Zaman, Baran Quarterly, Radio Zamaneh, BBC Persian, Arash, Shahrvand, Shahrgon, Hamyar, and Bang. To date, his published works include the novel Sohraosh and the Inhuman Army of Justice, and collections of literary essays From Detours to Home and Self, Home in Unhomeliness, and The Uprooted Text.
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علی نگهبان، نویسنده، پژوهشگر ادبی و مترجم است. او نخستین جُستارها و بررسیهای ادبی خود را در دههی هفتاد خورشیدی در مجلههایی مانند تکاپو و آدینه منتشر کرد؛ اما هنگامی که با سانسور شدن رمان، مجموعه شعر و دیگر نوشتههایش، و بسته شدن نشریههای مستقل و فزونی گرفتن فشارها، امکان زیستن و نوشتن در ایران بسیار دشوار شد، به ناگزیر به کانادا کوچید.

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