Het land van aankomst”, scrivere tra due culture in Olanda oggi. Spijkerschrift di Kader Abdolah

Abstract

Kader Abdolah, an Iranian writer in exile living since 1988 in Holland, is an outstanding figure of Dutch contemporary literary scene. In Spijkerschrift (2000), his second novel, Ismaiel’s enquiry, the attempt to decipher his deaf-mute father’s manuscript, written in a mysterious cuneiform script, is a metaphor for the reconsideration of Iran’s recent past from the point of view of his own experience and that of his family. In the novel the author weaves complex strands of relationship between Holland, his new home, and Iran, the land form which he is exiled, recovering images and stylistic elements  belonging to the Persian literary tradition which he blends with literary motives belonging to the Dutchculture.

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