Poets Who Tasted the Flavor of Qajari Coffee.
According to cinemadrame, the book “Qajari Coffee in the Cup of Literature” explores the content-driven literature of the Restoration period and the emergence of modernity, focusing on the lives and poetry of both well-known and lesser-known poets of the Qajar era.
“Qajari Coffee in the Cup of Literature” consists of three chapters titled: “In the Slope of Literature,” “The Renaissance of Literature in the Western Region during the Qajar Era,” and “Asadabad and a Poet without a Divan in the Qajar Era.” The book takes a scholarly approach to explain the nature of Qajar literature and examines the literary and social events that took place during the Qajar reign, shaping part of its literary character.
In the book’s introduction, Shafiei and Birang write about the title: “The title ‘Qajari Coffee in the Cup of Literature’ was chosen for the book. The story of Qajari coffee and who tasted it during the Qajar period is a well-known topic that requires no explanation. However, when this lethal coffee is prepared in the cup of literature, it naturally reflects the oppression endured by the cultural class or the essence of literature under the Qajar rule. In other words, literature under different rulers could have had a different fate during this era, but this did not happen, and thus the topic of the return, which defines and explains part of the confusion of literature, emerges during this era, as discussed earlier.”
This book is the second volume of a six-book series that examines the history and literature of Iran from a content-driven perspective. The first volume of this series, titled “Thousands of Persians in the Land of a Thousand Gods,” has also been published by Sureh Mehr Publications.
“Qajari Coffee in the Cup of Literature” is published by the Literary Creations Center of the Art Bureau and is available in the market in 500 copies.
