Marjane Satrapi

In The Economist issue of June 13th, in print; on June 11th on-line: Obituary: Veil and beard and nuclear weapon Marjane Satrapi set out to correct the West’s views of Iran The author of Persepolis, an international sensation, died on June 4th, aged 56 The book. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, an autobiographical comic book, originally published in French in four parts from 2000 to 2003 and in English in two parts, as Persepolis (2003) and Persepolis 2 (2004) — about her childhood in Iran and adolescence in Europe following the Iranian revolution The book, then, seeks to explain a very specific world to those who live in a more general one, from the point of view of someone who has moved through both of them. An enterprise of obvious significance to an understanding of the political world we currently live in, and also analogous to the description (both literary and scientific) of minority communities and subcultures, of the sort that engage scholars of sociolinguistics,…