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Spirit of Iran
Peter Avery
Forthcoming in late 2000
In his introduction to this volume, the author, Mr. Peter Avery, writes: "This
book is not intended to be either a political or literary history of Iran. Rather, it is
an essay aimed at demonstrating the continuity of a characteristic Iranian artistic genius
which is marked by the capacity for appreciation of nature sufficiently sensitive for the
leap to be made from the reality of natural objects to abstract symbols representative of
them. The persistence of a distinctive way of looking at nature, reproducing it in art,
and illustrating Man’s close, congenial relationship with his environment, are the
themes which this book sets out to expose as peculiar to Iranian culture. It is perhaps
superfluous to say that this peculiarity harks back to Man’s special relationship
with nature as inculcated in Zoroastrianism: as well as an ancient and continuing Iranian
trait, it is sanctified by Iran’s ancient religious tradition.
As for political history, no essay on the fibrous continuity of Iranian artistic
aspirations and techniques can ignore the vicissitudes of the Iranian region’s
history. They have tempered and tested the Iranian genius as if it were in a crucible. As
for the literary history, no such essay can be without constant citations of the poets of
Iran and its annalists. In Persian poetry reposes one of Iran’s greatest art forms,
which is to say, one of the world’s. In the historians are to be found descriptions
of the sufferings of the Iranian people that made up so much of this people’s
history, and which their historians intended should be recorded for posterity to know what
those sufferings entailed. Further, it has been considered appropriate as far as possible
to tell some of the story of Iran in the words of Iranians themselves.
It might be observed that the modern period, principally the 19th and 20th centuries, has
been treated scantily. This defect, if defect it is in a book of this kind, can readily be
corrected: the author is willing sympathetically to consider extending the narrative to
deal in more detail with recent years, although the complexity of their political history
might only be included insofar as they offer evidence of the particular kind of psychology
of the Iranians, and the continuing vitality, in face of grave adversity, of their
genius."
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