(Éditions québécoises de l'oeuvre, collection Vita Traductiva, 2013) Haddadian-Moghaddam, Esmaeil; Pym, Anthony
When the picaresque novel The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan was published in Persian in 1905, it contained a critique of Persian autocratic tradition, contrasting it with the relative modernity of Constantinople. Who wrote the critique? Who was speaking through the novel? This study traces the multiple mediating voices, some editorial, some translational, that enabled a critical modernity to move across worlds.