Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9782360571932
Collection: Grands bilingues
13.5 x 21.5 cm
Weight: 320 gr
Pages: 264
First publication: 05/06/2019
Last printing: 05-2019
Translation: Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam
A curiosity of 19th French literature: a play about Persia from the court of the Qâjârs
We follow here step by step the literary investigation full of twists of Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam. Discovering in an issue of the Review of Two Worlds the play "The Court of Tehran or Do not wake the sleeping cat" signed "Haçan Mehemet Khan", obviously a pseudonym, he makes all kinds of assumptions about its author, which leads him to the first teacher of French at the Polytechnic School of Tehran, Jules Richard. He has written a diary, unfortunately lost, of which only fragments are preserved of his translation into Persian. In this journal, Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam finds some similarities with the content of the play. Convinced that he had solved the enigma, he went to the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève to consult again the volume VII of the Revue des Deux Mondes containing the piece, but he was mistakenly given the volume that contained the general table of the aforementioned journal for the period from 1831 to 1874. And to his surprise, he discovers that the real author of the play is Etienne Gilbert Eugène de Sartiges. The play is given in French, in a commented edition, and in its Persian translation. What also appears in the book is the facsimile of his edition in the Revue des Deux Mondes. Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam completes the reader's vision of the time, that of Mohammad Shah Qajar's (1834-1848), by giving the reader access to the translation in Persian, and in its reconstituted French version, the Diary of Jules Richard. The general introduction of the book is also translated into Persian. The first part of the book is devoted to texts in French and the second (to be read in reverse) to texts in Persian.
Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam is professor and director of the Department of Persian Studies at the University of Strasbourg. He specializes in the history of Iran from the 16th to the 20th century and is particularly interested in the history of the art market, correspondence, stories French travelers as well as various aspects of relations between France and Iran under the Qâjâr (1796-1925).
Introduction (Introduction)
La Cour de Téhéran (The Court of Tehran)
Glossaire (Glossary)
Journal intime de Jules Richard (The Diary of Jules Richard)
Fac-similé de la Revue des Deux Mondes (Facsimile of the Revue des Deux Mondes)