“Where are you from?”
“Iran.”
“O.. I’ve been in Iran.”
“Really!!!”
“Yes, many years ago. I guess even before you were born.”
Thos many years ago were the brilliant ages for Iran and Iranians. I remember my father would describe it: Golden Years. He liked it a lot. So, those Golden Years, like any ages through history, had their own form of art so did movies and TV series. Scoffing had lots of partisans, and one of the most wanted scoffing TV series was “Daii Jaan Napoleon.”
The series is based on a novel named the same by Iraj Pezeshkzaad in the 1970s.
Although the story is told through an young teenage boy who has falen for Leyla, Daii Jaan’s daughter, it is mainly about a Paranoid old man, Daii Jaan, who is pretty delusional. He has an authoritarian character, and trust nothing even not himself I suppose.
I realized the novel has been translated in English, ” My Unlce Napoleon” by Dick Davis. Davis states; “God forbid, I’ve fallen in love with Layli!” So begins the farce of our narrator’s life, one spent in a large extended Iranian family lorded over by the blustering, paranoid patriarch, Dear Uncle Napoleon. When Uncle Napoleon’s least-favorite nephew falls for his daughter, Layli, family fortunes are reversed, feuds fired up and resolved, and assignations attempted and thwarted.(end quote)
Amazing how people exchange materials such as literature. So, Iranian’s culture is being introduced to world. nice!
