Abstract
The question of death is perhaps the most daring question through the history of human beings. In the Western philosophical tradition death is mostly depicted as an event, a coming of a final chapter of every human's life with which his course of life concludes its narration. Except Martin Heidegger whose conception of death is the existential constitution of human being, announcing and revealing the Nothing of the world. He interprets death as a way of life, alongside the Nothing that equally shapes the meaning of every experience. Literature can best exemplify such a living death through narratives of the Nothing of Heideggerian world. To this end, the current paper studies a Persian novel, Symphony of the Dead (2001) by Abbas Maroufi. In this discussion, methodology is explicitly the phenomenology of death which Heidegger explicates in Being and Time (1927), and it concluded that death is experienced not as an event, but the unifying structural necessity in which past and present are only possible in the future dying experience. It also concludes that dying as a way of life not only overshadows death as an event, but is also the ultimate ground for the possibility of such thinking of death. Key words: Abbas Maroufi, anxiety, being and time, dasein, death, temporality.
Highlights
The quest and question of death had long provided for human beings the directives and dimensions according to which his course of life could be meaningful and even necessary
What is to be discussed in this paper is the application of phenomenon of death (provided by Martin Heidegger in Being and Time (2010) on Symphony of the Dead (2001) a novel by Abbas Maroufi
Heidegger begins Division II of Being and Time with a thematic and methodological question concerning the unity of his hermeneutic readings by which he approaches the unity of Dasein to provide a "phenomenological certainty" (Being and Time, 2010: 222) of what was only "formally indicated" (BT, 221) about Dasein's existence
Summary
The quest and question of death had long provided for human beings the directives and dimensions according to which his course of life could be meaningful and even necessary. A considerable amount of modern Persian literature deals with death and life in the face of what is an eminent death. It is concluded that so much like a symphony which all the notes play a significance to the overall narrative, death is experienced not as an event, but the unifying structural necessity in which past and present are only possible in the future dying experience. It concludes that dying as a way of life overshadows death as an event, but is the ultimate ground for the possibility of such thinking of death. First is Heidegger's premonition in "A Dialogue on Language (1982)" about applying European concepts on Eastern literature
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