Houshang Golshiri Character Analysis

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Introduction: Houshang Golshiri and his masterwork Shazdeh Ehhtejab (Prince Ehtejab)
Similar to other branches of art, literature has been under the domination of male-centered ideology. Great masterpieces have been most of the times known to be written by men. Even those who have written stories about women conflict are depicting women from a man 's point of view, either a main male character or the writer himself. The famous modern Persian writer Houshang Golshiri, who wrote many fictions about women struggle, is not exclusive to this fact and introduces women mostly through a male narrative’s descriptions. His masterwork, Shazdeh Ehtejab (Prince Ehtejab), involves four important female characters that have been introduced to the reader through dissimilarities and resemblances that the narrator, Khosro Ehtejab, presents.
Houshang Golshiri (1938-2000) was one of the most influential Iranian modern fiction writers who, together with other writers such as Sadegh Hedayat and Bahram Sadeqi, impressed Persian prose during the 20th century (96, Taheri, Azimi). He came from a large family in Isfahan where he completed a bachelor degree in Persian literature and started to teach elementary and high school. Golshiri’s constant efforts to reduce official censorship of imaginative literature brought him a reputation in literary circles and soon became famous for his novella Shazdeh Ehtejab (Prince Ehtejab) “which is a tortured journey of self-realization through the remembrance of

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