By Kamin Mohammadi
Kamin Mohammadi was once 9 years outdated whilst her relatives fled Iran in the course of the 1979 Revolution. Bewildered by way of the seismic adjustments in her place of birth, she grew to become her again at the previous and spent her teenage years attempting to slot in with British attitudes to kin, foodstuff and freedom. She used to be twenty-seven earlier than she lower back to Iran, drawn inexorably again by means of thoughts of her grandmother's condo in Abadan, with its conventional internal courtyard, its noisy gatherings and its very wallssteeped in history.The Cypress Tree is Kamin's account of her trip domestic, to rediscover her Iranian self and to find for the 1st time the tale of her family members: a sprawling extended family that sprang from humble roots to bloom throughout the prosperous, Biba-clad Sixties, merely to be shaken via the horrors of the Iran-Iraq struggle and the heartbreak of exile, and toughened by means of the fight for democracy that keeps today.This relocating and passionate memoir is a love letter either to Kamin's remarkable relations and toIran itself, an old nation which has survived quite a bit glossy tumult yet the place pleasure and resilience will consistently conquer melancholy.
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I erect no new idols; let the old idols learn what it means to have legs of clay. To overthrow idols (my word for ‘ideals’) – that rather is my business. Reality has been deprived of its value, its meaning, its veracity to the same degree as an ideal world has been fabricated… The ‘real world’ and the ‘apparent world’ – in plain terms: the fabricated world and reality… The lie of the ideal has hitherto been the curse on reality, through it mankind itself has become mendacious and false down to its deepest instincts – to the point of worshipping the inverse values to those which alone could guarantee it prosperity, future, the exalted right to a future.
Not in vain have I buried my forty-fourth year today, I was entitled to bury it – what there was of life in it is rescued, is immortal. The first book of the Revaluation of all Values, the Songs of Zarathustra, the Twilight of the Idols, my attempt to philosophize with a hammer – all of them gifts of this year, of its last quarter even! How should I not be grateful to my whole life? – And so I tell myself my life. WHY I AM SO WISE 1 THE fortunateness of my existence, its uniqueness perhaps, lies in its fatality: to express it in the form of a riddle, as my father I have already died, as my mother I still live and grow old.
In its obituary The Times described him as ‘Britain’s foremost postwar Nietzsche specialist’ and the Guardian paid tribute to his ‘inspired gift for German translation’. Richard Gott wrote that he ‘brought fresh generations – through fluent and intelligent translation – to read and relish Nietzsche’s inestimable thought’. MICHAEL TANNER was educated in the RAF and at Cambridge University, where he was a Lecturer in Philosophy until 1997 and is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He is equally interested in philosophy, music and literature, his particular areas being Friedrich Nietzsche and Richard Wagner.