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Hushang Golshiri’s Maʿsum-e sevvom (The Third Innocent) as a Political Thriller

In: Journal of Persianate Studies
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Renata Rusek-Kowalska Department of Iranian Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow Poland

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Abstract

Written in 1973, Hushang Golshiri (1938–2000)’s Maʿsum-e sevvom (The Third Innocent), is a multilayered short story that can be read from various perspectives. In this study, I examine both its historical context and intertextual references to the twelfth-century romance of Khosrow ō Shirin by the poet Nezāmi Ganjavi (1141–1209). Indeed, that medieval romance serves the reader as a hermeneutical key, providing insight to the puzzle-like, modern work of fiction and legitimizing the possibility of its reading as a political thriller.

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