From cinema to the written page

A reader’s path through the arts

Laurent Garreau opens his postface with cinema as his route into Iranian poetry and contemporary prose. Films, literary adaptations and the Nouvelles Images Persanes festival provide occasions for that encounter. His account accompanies Nasim Vahabi and Julie Duvigneau’s panorama of Iranian literature published in France. Source 1

Rabihavi in a history of constraint

On PDF page 5, Garreau names Le sourire de Mariam and Les garçons de l’amour while placing Rabihavi beside the literary legacy of Sadegh Hedayat. He reads Hedayat’s representation of confined independent thinkers in Three Drops of Blood against the later imprisonment of writers such as Rabihavi in Evin. The comparison belongs to Garreau’s critical argument about state violence and writing as testimony; it is not a new first-person recollection by Rabihavi. Source 1

The postface broadens into the choices writers face under censorship, the uncertain promise of exile and the encounters made possible by translators and French readers. It also considers the difficulty of separating lived experience from imagined narrative. These are Garreau’s wider claims about a literary tradition, rather than evidence that every fictional character represents its author. Source 1

The postface and its deposited version

The document identifies Garreau as the postface’s author and gives April 2024 as its writing date. La Chouette et le Jardin. Panorama de la littérature iranienne en France is credited to Nasim Vahabi and Julie Duvigneau, with a preface by Cécile Ladjali. The HAL cover records Utopiran, 2024, ISBN 978-2-36612-504-7. Its 31 July 2026 submission date concerns the deposited version. The source reader contains the ten-page postface, not the complete book. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3

Sources & credits

1. Laurent Garreau · Des “Nouvelles Images” aux nouvelles pages

   Inspected ten-page HAL deposit of the French postface to La Chouette et le Jardin. Its opening identifies Nasim Vahabi and Julie Duvigneau as the book’s principal authors and dates the postface’s writing to April 2024. PDF page 5 names Rabihavi and his two French novels. The repository cover gives Utopiran, 2024, ISBN 978-2-36612-504-7 and a submission date of 31 July 2026. Its CC BY 4.0 attribution notice concerns the deposited postface; this source note does not assign that licence to the complete book.

2. HAL · Garreau’s postface record

   Official repository metadata, checked 4 October 2026, identifies the 2024 book chapter, its French and English abstracts, author Laurent Garreau, publisher Utopiran and ISBN 978-2-36612-504-7. The later repository submission is distinct from the work’s year. The official document endpoint supplied the complete postface.

3. Laurent Garreau · publication list

   The author’s primary HAL CV lists this chapter in La Chouette et le Jardin. Panorama de la littérature iranienne en France, by Nasim Vahabi and Julie Duvigneau, Utopiran, 2024. It supplies publication context, not an additional Rabihavi-authored book.