| dc.description.abstract | The Iranian society under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1941-1979) is a
society in crisis, struggling to give birth to the man of modern times. A key
factor in this process are the Iranian writers and intellectuals, who define justice
and progress through the service to the people. They find in the Iranian society
of that time alienation, exploitation, depression, lack of perspective and of
sense. Some of their efforts go towards defining problems – e.g. through the
notion of occidentosis, which characterises the relations between Iran and the
colonial power, as well as by pointing out the uselessness of the Westernised
Iranian intellectuals. At the same time, solutions are proposed by literature –
social struggle, modernisation, the creation of a new subject of the Iranian
society, which often happens through super effort. Consciously or not, those
works prepare the soil for the groundbreaking event from 1979 – the Islamic
Revolution. | en_US |
