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The Gods Laugh on Mondays
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'The Gods Laugh on Mondays' (in Persian: ' ') was the first novel by an Iranian author with the pen name Reza Khoshnazar which was published in August 1995. It was a lurid chronicle of Iran in which the male protagonist is raped by his schoolmate, and can not be sure whether he liked it or not. He then marries a young woman who has an affair with his best friend. Eventually, the angst-ridden hero goes on a murder-suicide binge.Newsweek, October,1995, page 37. This novel has been dedicated to Gregor Samsa, protagonist of novel 'The Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka. Reaction was hot, and some conservative papers called 'Gods' a blasphemy. On the night of August 22, 1995, men arrived at the book publisher's shop identifying themselves as Islamic building inspectors. They set the building on fire. A head of Islamic propaganda (Ahmad Jannati) declared at Friday prayer that zealots are above the law.Newsweek, October,1995, page 37. Reza Khoshnazar has published six other novels in Sweden.
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