Story · Memoirs of a Soldier
A Foggy Day
English finding-aid title for the scanned Persian text; not a published English translation title.
A borrowed jeep, a search for milk and two photographers lead the soldiers towards an absence in the fog.
- Author
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Publication
- Memoirs of a Soldier
- Source date
- Autumn 1360 (Iranian calendar) · Qoqnus edition
- Published language
- Persian
- This page
- English publication guide
English editorial orientation to the inspected Persian scan. The complete literary text remains with the original publication.
Reading orientation
The narrator borrows a jeep to find milk for his sick fellow soldier, Baqer Saffari. Shops in the largely emptied town cannot supply it. He remembers an elderly man who had offered goat’s milk when the narrator wrote a letter for him, a meeting a photographer had recorded. Source 1
Two photographers now want to repeat that scene because a sergeant destroyed the earlier photographs. The old man’s house is empty. A boy tells them that a shell killed the goat and that the man later lay down and died. The search for relief and the search for an image end at the same missing person; the account of his death reaches the reader through the boy’s report. Source 1
The scanned appearance
Yek ruz-e meh-gerefteh appears in Memoirs of a Soldier, PDF pages 28–38 · printed pages 27–37. The scanned colophon identifies Qoqnus and first edition autumn 1360. The third story takes place during Bahman, an Iranian winter month. The date identifies the scanned volume, rather than an independently established composition date. The English title is a finding aid. Source 1
Sources & credits
- A Foggy Day · scanned Persian source
Yek ruz-e meh-gerefteh. Memoirs of a Soldier. The scanned colophon identifies Qoqnus and first edition autumn 1360. The third story takes place during Bahman, an Iranian winter month. PDF pages 28–38 · printed pages 27–37. The English paragraphs are original editorial reading orientations, not reproduced or translated literary passages.