Образ Ірану в збірці репортажів Олександра Мар’ямова «Іран без чадура»

Abstract

The article deals with the extraordinary spread of literary reportage on the theme of wandering into Ukrainian Soviet journalism during the period of national-cultural revival, which took the name “coronation”. In particular, the collection of reports written by Olexander Mariamov called Iran without Chador [Ìran bez čadura], written after the visit. The author went to Persia in 1928. The subject of the article is the characteristics which were the reporter’s impression of reforms in the economic, political, social, and religious life of the country made by Shah Raza Pahlavi. It is worth pointing out that much attention in the collection of reports is drawn to the narrative of Iranian customs and everyday life, which carry realistic information about the traditional life in the East. The main emphasis based on the fact that the characteristic feature of the cycle of reporting Iran without Chador is the tendency towards fragmentation. The text is divided into five parts, however it works as one complete work. Its integrity through the presentation of information from first-person perspective. The chronological type of composition chosen by the journalist allows not only a description of the events, but also to sharing his own impressions and thoughts of what he saw. The traveller’s observations of the reporter often consist of fixing all the trifles that reproduce the unique eastern flavor. The work focuses on the literary and artistic value of the collection of reports Iran without Chador, which has never been reissued since 1929 and the reader had the opportunity to get acquainted with it only in 2016. Although after 90 years of the first publishing literary reports on the travel themes of Mariamov are read with curiosity and and are still relevant today due to the fact that they were interesting, cognitive, entertaining, attracted by modern freshness of feelings and intriguing experience and they show a complete and objective image of Persia’s life of the 1920s.