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Reza Baraheni
The Crowned Cannibals
Vintage Books
Vintage Books
The Crowned Cannibals
Writings on Repression in Iran
Reza Baraheni
With an Introduction by E. L Doctorow
Vintage Books
A Division of Random House
New York
A Vintage Original, June 1977
First Edition
Copyright © 1976, 1977 by Reza Baraheni
Introduction Copyright © 1977 by E. L. Doctorow
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc.,
New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of
Canada Limited, Toronto.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Baraheni, Reza, 1935-
The crowned cannibals.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Iran—Politics and government—1945-
2. Baraheni, Reza, 1935- —Biography.
3. Poets, Persian—Biography.
4. Political prisoners—Iran—Biography.
5. Torture—Iran.
I. Title.
DS318.B335 / 320.9'55'05 / 76-62496
ISBN 0-394-72357-0
Portions of this book were first published in Intercontinental Press,
Penthouse, Mother Jones, and The New York Review of Books.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint
previously published material:
Grove Press, Inc.: Ten lines of the poem "The Dictators" by
Pablo Neruda. Reprinted from Five Decades: A Selection by
Pablo Neruda, translated by Ben Belitt. Copyright © 1974 by
Grove Press, Inc. Translation copyright © 1961, 1969, 1972, 1974 by Ben Belitt
Spanish text copyright 1933, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1947, 1950, 1954,
©1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 by
Pablo Neruda (Editorial Losada, S.A., Buenos Aires).
Jerzy Kosinski and P.E.N. International: Excerpts from letters written by
Jerzy Kosinski to the Prime Minister of Iran.
Le Monde: Excerpts from an article written by Eric Rouleau which
was published in the October 5, 1976, issue of Le Monde.
Princeton University Press: "Walls," by C. P. Cavafy.
Reprinted from page 3 in C. P. Cavafy Collected Poems. Translation copyright
©1975 by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.
Manufactured in the United States of America
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