From the Iran Book News Agency - Dariush Shayegan on Proust!

“Proust Night” program to unveil ‘Magic Lantern of Time’

Published Sunday 31 December 2017 - 19:22

IBNA- The program, “Night of Marcel Proust” will be held in Tehran where the book ‘Magic Lantern of Time’ by eminent Iranian philosopher Dariush Shayegan will be unveiled.

According to IBNA correspondent, the program which is scheduled for Monday, January 1 in Ferdowsi Hall of House of Thinkers in Tehran, has been organized by Bukhara Magazine and Farhang-e Mo’aaser publishing.

‘Magic Lantern of Time’ describes and interprets Marcel Proust’s reflections in his masterpiece novel ‘In Search of Lost Time’. As well as Shayegan, the program will be attended by Iranian writers and scholars Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Kamran Faani, Hamed Fouladvand and Ali Dehbashi.

Sahyegan is a thinker whose ideas for his works in the field of comparative philosophy are particularly reputed in France. He studied in France under Henry Corbin in Paris and has carried out several extensive researches on Persian mysticism and mystic poetry.