Abbas Maroufi (毓亘丕爻 賲毓乇賵賮蹖) was an Iranian novelist and journalist.
Raised and educated in Tehran, Abbas Maroufi studied dramatic arts at Tehran University while teaching at schools and writing for the newspapers. He served as the editor in chief of the literary Gardun magazine from 1990 to 1995. His first published work was a collection of short stories entitled Into the Sun. He also wrote a few plays which were performed on stage. In his The Last Superior Generation, he touched on social themes. His last collection of short stories, The Scent of the Jasmine was published in the United States.
Maroufi came to prominence with the publication of Symphony of the Dead (1989) which is narrated in the form of a symphony.
Maroufi currently resides in Germany where he has opened a book-store, He also Holds writing classes and teaches Students who show interest in writing and story-telling.
Tamaman Makhsoos = Completely Special = Entirely Special, Abbas Maroufi
Maroufi came to prominence with the publication of Symphony of the Dead (1989) which is narrated in the form of a symphony. Maroufi uses the stream of consciousness technique very effectively. The Year of Turmoil and The Body of Farhad are among his other works. Some of his works have been translated into German.
Maroufi's Books and style was heavily influenced by Iran's modernist writer "Houshang Golshiri" who was also his teacher.
Totally Special is a story about the life of Abbas Irani, an exiled journalist who is forced to emigrate from Iran to Germany. This research tries to answer the question in a descriptive-analytical way that what are the most important components of modernism in Abbas Maroufi's "human-centered" novels? The findings indicate that "tendency to the world within the characters", "fluid flow of the mind", "internal conflict", "rejection of the narrative method in the novel" and "different way of characterization" are the most important components. The manifestations of modernism are in the novels under discussion.