Description

For the translation of Émile Zola’s novel La Curée, which in Iranian translates into The Face of a Woman, the designer used a somehow overdramatic illustration of a face of a woman watching herself calmly observing a murder. The contemporary exaggerated features, influences by the late 1930s films noirs, make this cover a superb example of the Iranian pulp book cover design.

The back, equally attractive cover, is a combination of a photomontage, modern lines, Iranian title, a man disposing a body and a portrait of Edward G. Robinson.

The cover is a superb example of the relatively unknown and underappreciated Iranian graphic design of pulp editions.