Goli Taraghi: The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Iranian author Goli Taraghi's recent collection translates many of her short stories of the past forty years into English for the first time.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Thanks for listening to Bookworm. I'll bet you'll want to listen to DNA, KCRW's podcast with Francis Anderton.
0:08.8	She's really one of the best informed people about architecture and the face the world is putting on today.
0:16.6	Find DNA on KCRW's iTunes page.
0:21.4	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:25.0	Boots!
0:30.1	Where would we be without boos?
0:33.9	Where would we be without good?
0:36.2	No, Timberg.
0:43.3	It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books? From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:50.3	And today we're very lucky because my guest is Goli Taragi.
0:56.4	She is the author of a collection of stories that have been translated from her stories in Iranian and in French.
1:07.1	The collection is called the Pomegranate Lady and her sons.
1:11.1	There are stories that she's written throughout the last, what, 30, 40 years, yes?
1:17.2	And they go from before the revolution in Iran to the present, but they are, and this is what's special about them,
1:29.6	stories about how the eternal enters the daily world
1:34.7	through various visions, characters, states of poetic mind,
1:42.8	through sorrow, through revolution, through injustice, all the time
1:48.0	another world is fighting to enter this one and to remind us of something beyond the trivialities
1:59.0	that we daily face to the eternities.
2:04.3	And it's such a pleasure.
2:05.7	I feel that the English language is very lucky now to have these stories translated into
2:11.9	it so that we can read it because in all truth, I compare Golil Taragi to my favorite stories of Gogol.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from KCRW, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of KCRW and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.