At “The Labyrinth of Stories”
The Works of Saki to review
Iran Theater- The radio program ” The Labyrinth of Stories will cover saki’s works,An author a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture.
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916) is better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro.
He is considered by English teachers and scholars as a master of the short story, and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.[1]
Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), he wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire (the only book published under his own name); a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland); and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion and occupation of Britain.
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Influenced by Khayyam's poems, he took the nickname Saki.
Two stories of him, the open window and the storyteller, will be narrated in this program
Behnaz Bostandoust will read the story of "Moon on Water" and will analyze this story with Kayhan Bahmani . The biography is narrated by Reza Omrani and the producer of this program is Jaleh Mohammad Ali.
Every Friday, the show is on air.