On Popular Culture Traces in War:

"The Wooden Effigy and Nightingale Singing" to be Published

Navideshahed: Referring to the fact that great writers have always got around the subject of war anywhere in the world, Mohammad Haji Alian said: "War is a great incident, but the educated people in Iran consider those who get around the war literature as obsessed."

News ID: ۳۶۳۳۷۲

يکشنبه - ۲۶ آبان ۲۰۱۲ / 2012 26 August

According to Navideshahed quoting Sura Mehr Website, Mohammad Esmael Haji Aliyan regarding the book ‘The Wooden Effigy and Nightingale Singing’ said: “This work consists of 9 short stories with the subjects of revolution and the Sacred Defense Era and the conditions after revolution. The book has been concentrated on the stability literature and the feature of such books is focusing on the local literature, war and Iranian people’s sociology.”?

This poet added: “Of course this book is much different than most of the stories of stability literature, because it has focused on the folklore, cultural and historical concepts. Also in this book I attempted to use to the cultural and social environment of our country as well.”?

Haji Aliyan considered the purpose of writing of this book as paying attention to the literature of the Sacred Defense Era and he said: “The literature of the Sacred Defense Era as one of the branches of the contemporary literature has many works to be done; therefore we should consider it as our own duties, because the war and revolution were two big events and they have created many opportunities for the story writers in this ground.”?

He declared: “One of the short stories is the story ‘The Wooden Effigy and Nightingale Singing’. Also this name has been used as the title of the book as well; this subject points out to a part of the cultural identity of Iran; ‘Elf’ is a fictional creature which exists in the culture of Iranians. The Kurds have wooden dolls and each time that a child is born, they hang the doll in front of the house gate in order to make the elf understand that this house has a guard each time that it wants to enter the house. The nightingale whistle is also about the place where the first character of the story is so excited and he whistles, it whistles the same as nightingale.”?

This writer declared: “I was born in a family who had a direct connection to the war. My brothers would go to the battlefields with different excuses and writing this book has somehow become an intellectual concern for me.”?

Haji Aliyan at the end of his words added: “The literature of the Sacred Defense Era from the beginning until now has seen itself in the oppositeness of the intellectual literature, but we can see that the war is a very big event, while the Iranian intellectuals consider those who pay attention to the issue of war as astray.”?

It should be noted that until now this writer has released the series book ‘Sacrifices’ and the novel ‘Red chamomile Symphony’.

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According to Navideshahed quoting Sura Mehr Website, Mohammad Esmael Haji Aliyan regarding the book ‘The Wooden Effigy and Nightingale Singing’ said: “This work consists of 9 short stories with the subjects of revolution and the Sacred Defense Era and the conditions after revolution. The book has been concentrated on the stability literature and the feature of such books is focusing on the local literature, war and Iranian people’s sociology.”? This poet added: “Of course this book is much different than most of the stories of stability literature, because it has focused on the folklore, cultural and historical concepts. Also in this book I attempted to use to the cultural and social environment of our country as well.”? Haji Aliyan considered the purpose of writing of this book as paying attention to the literature of the Sacred Defense Era and he said: “The literature of the Sacred Defense Era as one of the branches of the contemporary literature has many works to be done; therefore we should consider it as our own duties, because the war and revolution were two big events and they have created many opportunities for the story writers in this ground.”? He declared: “One of the short stories is the story ‘The Wooden Effigy and Nightingale Singing’. Also this name has been used as the title of the book as well; this subject points out to a part of the cultural identity of Iran; ‘Elf’ is a fictional creature which exists in the culture of Iranians. The Kurds have wooden dolls and each time that a child is born, they hang the doll in front of the house gate in order to make the elf understand that this house has a guard each time that it wants to enter the house. The nightingale whistle is also about the place where the first character of the story is so excited and he whistles, it whistles the same as nightingale.”? This writer declared: “I was born in a family who had a direct connection to the war. My brothers would go to the battlefields with different excuses and writing this book has somehow become an intellectual concern for me.”? Haji Aliyan at the end of his words added: “The literature of the Sacred Defense Era from the beginning until now has seen itself in the oppositeness of the intellectual literature, but we can see that the war is a very big event, while the Iranian intellectuals consider those who pay attention to the issue of war as astray.”? It should be noted that until now this writer has released the series book ‘Sacrifices’ and the novel ‘Red chamomile Symphony’. The End