This is not a Mansion, It Has Been Destroyed (A review of two prints from Ᾱref Ghazvini's letters)

Document Type : pajoohesh

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10.22081/jap.2020.69502

Abstract

Ᾱref Qazvini's poems, tasnifs, notes, and letters have had many readers since Constitutional Era; however, during his life time, and especially after his death, his published works were disorganized, misrepresented, distorted, and even lacked some parts. This was mostly done intentionally due to several reasons such as removing his caustic comments, censoring his attacks on two branches of religious and political tyranny as well as on his contemporary fellows, his publishers' ideological differences, and sometimes the inability to read his manuscripts which has made his writings so distorted and meaningless.
In recent years, two collections of Ᾱref's correspondences with his friends titled Ᾱref-e Qazvini's Letters (Negāh Publication, 1391; and Hermes publication, 1396). A thorough examination of the texts of these books and comparing them with Ᾱref's manuscripts or the original sources has revealed many errors in these publications, the deliberate and ideological elimination of some parts of his letters by Negāh publication, and the significant errors made by Hermes Publication in Ᾱref's new-found letters.

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