A Man Who Was Great Without Noise

Karim Emami was apparently not one for fanfare, yet Iranian culture is built from people whose voices are not necessarily loud. Some work quietly, and when we look up, we see their handprints across many corners of this culture.

Iran's Sefir Arjan Literature Service (Safir Arjan) - Manijhe Saleh Panah, literary critic: Some characters cannot be introduced by their jobs. If we say about Karim Emami that he was a translator, we have not said anything yet; If we say that he was an editor and a journalist, then again, no. He was a chess player, made films, took photographs, wrote art criticism, played a role in the formation and management of several important publishing institutions, was one of the founders of "Today's Book" and finally became a cultural writer. However, perhaps the strangest feature of him is that the owner of such a colorful record was himself a quiet person; Quiet, low-key, precise and away from show. Perhaps it is this contradiction that makes the title "that simple and very important" so fitting.

"Karim Emami's identity card; "That Simple, Many Roles" compiled and edited by Mahnaz Moghadsi and under the supervision of Goli Emami, explains its task from the very beginning with an ordinary note. Goli Emami writes in the preface that this book is "memorandum and not"; It is not a memoir, because it is not supposed to be a collection of scattered writings of friends and colleagues of a lost man, dedicated only to him. The main difference of this book is that the main part of it is the writings of Karim Emami himself, and this is perhaps the most important decision of the book: to know Karim Emami as much as possible from his own words.

Mahnaz Moghdisi also narrates the experience of editing this collection in the three-page introduction of the book; Although he did not meet Emami himself, his writings, manuscripts, pictures, interviews and statements have become a part of his work and life during editing. The result is a book that, instead of creating a uniform and official face of Imami, puts together different parts of his life and work so that the reader can get an image of this cultural figure.

Karim Emami was born in Calcutta in 1309 and lived in India until he was two years old. His father was active in the tea business and after marriage, he had taken his mother to India. The family later returned to Shiraz; The city where Imami spent his childhood and primary and secondary education. He himself talks about a family that read books and newspapers and about the books he rented and read as a child. His interest in English language also developed in him from the same years; An interest that later became one of the main axes of his professional life.

Emami studied English at Tehran University's faculty of literature and then went to America with a university scholarship and studied English language and literature at the University of Minnesota, but what happened after returning to Iran shows that we are dealing with a personality that was not ready to fit into a professional definition.

He worked at Golestan Film Studio for a while and wrote for Kayhan International in Farsi and English at the same time. He even learned French as needed. Before this, chess was one of his serious interests; In his youth, he became the chess champion of Fars province and besides playing, he also translated and published articles about chess. These details, when placed next to the subsequent path of his life, reveal an important feature: Karim Emami's curiosity was not limited to one area.

But translation is perhaps the place where Karim Emami's name is associated with for a large part of the literature audience. In his own account, when he was in the Golestan film studio, the Franklin Publishing Institute invited him to translate. Najaf Daryabandari, who was Franklin's editor-in-chief at that time, had seen the translation of "With anger to remember R" and Imami's writings in Kaihan International, and as a result of this acquaintance, he suggested the translation of "The Great Gatsby" by F. It was Scott Fitzgerald.

This point in Imami's life is not just the beginning of a professional collaboration; His entry into one of the most important currents of modern Iranian publishing. At Franklin, he first worked as an editor and then became the editorial manager. Later, he continued to work in various fields of publishing and press; From "Today's Book" to Soroush Publishing House and later to Bookstore and Zamat Publishing House.

Throughout this path, one character trait stands out many times: accuracy. The image that the book gives of Imami is the image of a calm, quiet, low-noise and somewhat introverted man, but strict and precise in his work. His obsession with translation and editing is actually an important part of the same personality that did not allow the work to be done; It had to be done right.

Maybe that's why photography finds its place in his life. On a trip to Japan, he buys a good camera and pursues this interest more seriously. Goli Emami has spoken about his "photographic vision"; An interpretation that is not just about a personal interest. It is as if Imami, in every area he entered, saw first of all; Carefully, patiently and unhurriedly.

This feature finally shows itself in philology. A work that may be far from cinema, photography or chess at first glance, but in its depth it is a continuation of the same linguistic accuracy and professional obsession that we know from him in translation and editing.

The important point of "That simple, multi-role" is that it doesn't try to turn all these activities into a heroic and perfect image. The structure of the book also provides this possibility: Emami's own writings are placed next to the narratives and conversations of his friends and colleagues, and in the appendices there are also materials, including an article about his art criticism and examples of poetry translations. In this way, instead of receiving a linear biography, the reader is faced with a set of sounds and signs. Perhaps this is what an "introduction" should do: not to pass judgment on the character for the reader, but to present the necessary materials to know him.

Karim Emami was apparently not a fan of noise, but Iranian culture is made of people who are not necessarily loud. Some people work quietly and when we look up, we see that there are traces of their hands in many places of this culture. The story of a man who lived simply but simply did not leave the world of culture.

Karim Emami was apparently not a fan of noise, but Iranian culture is made of people who are not necessarily loud. Some work quietly and when we look up, we see that their handprints have been left in many places of this culture.

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