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1 Kelīdar is actually 2836 pages.
2 Mrs. Daneshvar confirmed to this writer later that she preferred Savūshūn even though Sūvashūn “is not wrong either.” Both are colloquial contractions of Siyāvashān.
3 Dowlatabadi, Mahmud, Kelīdar (Tehran: Nashr-e Parsi, 1978), vol. 1, p. 28.Google Scholar
4 Ibid., p. 74.
5 Dowlatabadi, Mahmud, Kārnāmeh-ye Sepanj, 3 vols. (Tehran: 1369/1990).Google Scholar
6 Dowlatabadi, Mā nīz mardomī hastīm (Tehran: 1368/1989).Google Scholar
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Iran's Communist Party, founded in 1941.
11 Kelīdar, op. cit., vol. 1, p. 95.
12 Ibid., p. 325.
13 Ibid., p. 461.
14 This paper was originally delivered at the Middle East Institute, Saint Antony's College, Oxford University on March 17, 1987.