Poetry
وداع با تاریکی
Not translated into English
Asadullah Habib · 1978
Synopsis
Wedāʿ bā tāriki, l'Adieu aux ténèbres, is the first poetry collection by Asadullah Habib, a short-story writer, novelist and specialist of Bidel. In a critical study of 2014, Mohammad-Haidar Akhtar writes that this book and Khatt-e sorkh bring together the core of his revolutionary poems. Another of his poems, Kaboul, written in July 1981, celebrates the capital as the city of the Saur revolution.
Context
Habib is first of all a prose writer: the short story Ghorub won the newspaper Anis's competition in 1963, then came Sepid andām in 1965, Se mozdur in 1966 or 1967, Dās-hā wa dast-hā and Nazargol in the nineteen-eighties. He also writes on Bidel, of whom he compiles a lexicon. His other verse collections are Khatt-e sorkh and Ātash dar nārenjzār.
Who it is for
Poems in Persian, with no translation. It helps to know the history of Afghanistan after 1978 in order to read these committed verses.
Prizes and reception
No distinction is known for these verses. Khaama presents him as the first to have chaired the national writers' association.
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