Review · Relações Internacionais · 25
A censor, a cup of coffee
Santos Lopes encounters Rabihavi through an anthology’s parable of censorship and its wider view of Iranian writing.
- Credited to
- Margarida Santos Lopes
- Publication
- Relações Internacionais · 25
- Source date
- March 2010 · pages 151–154
- Published language
- Portuguese
- This page
- English source guide
Original English editorial guide to the attributed Portuguese-language source. The critic’s interpretations remain theirs; the full source stays with its publisher.
An anthology against a narrow picture
Santos Lopes reviews Um Bom Escritor É Um Escritor Morto, the 2009 Nova Vega anthology edited by Nahid Mozaffari. Her closing appraisal credits Luís Oliveira Santos’s translation and Manuel Abrantes’s revision of the translation, while the bibliographic header lists both under translation. Her discussion uses literature to offer a view of Iran beyond a single public or political image. Source 1
Rabihavi appears through a parable of a writer waiting for permission to publish. The censor objects to a wife expecting coffee, bare arms and an image of sunrise resembling sunset. Santos Lopes uses this passage to illuminate how arbitrary reading can turn ordinary language into a prohibition. Source 1
A contribution within a collection
The review also places Rabihavi among the anthology’s writers who began publishing after the revolution. Its wider discussion moves between generations, old taboos and emerging questions. The article is a response to the collection as a whole, not a standalone review of a Rabihavi novel. Source 1
The title of his quoted contribution is not supplied in the passage. Nearby descriptions of other anthology stories should not automatically be assigned to him. This guide therefore preserves the attributed censorship passage and the anthology’s actual credits without inventing an individual edition relationship. Source 1
Sources & credits
- Margarida Santos Lopes · a different view of Iran
Portuguese anthology review in Relações Internacionais 25, March 2010, pages 151–154. Reviews the 2009 Nova Vega anthology edited by Nahid Mozaffari. Its header lists Luís Oliveira Santos and Manuel Abrantes under translation; its closing appraisal distinguishes Santos’s translation from Abrantes’s revision of the translation.