Story · Memoirs of a Soldier
Encounter
English finding-aid title for the scanned Persian text; not a published English translation title.
On his last evening away from the front, a young soldier talks with a captain about work, love, patriotism and the fear of dying.
- 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
A twenty-two-year-old soldier shares food with a reserve captain in Mahshahr before returning to the front. Their conversation moves between unequal military privileges, the narrator’s work as a panel beater, his attachment to his cousin and the mother who depends on his wages. The captain’s questions interrupt the reassuring answers he tries to give about serving his homeland. Source 1
As they walk into the blackout, the captain’s cold hand recalls the narrator’s dead father. Talk of leaving the army meets the practical ties that keep the soldier there. The captain tells him he is too young to die and then departs into darkness. The final image places the narrator among portraits of war dead shaken by the wind, without resolving what he will do next. Source 1
The scanned appearance
Movajeheh appears in Memoirs of a Soldier, PDF pages 50–68 · printed pages 49–67. The scanned colophon identifies Qoqnus and first edition autumn 1360. The fifth story ends before the publisher’s advertisements on PDF page 69. The date identifies the scanned volume, rather than an independently established composition date. The English title is a finding aid. Source 1
Sources & credits
- Encounter · scanned Persian source
Movajeheh. Memoirs of a Soldier. The scanned colophon identifies Qoqnus and first edition autumn 1360. The fifth story ends before the publisher’s advertisements on PDF page 69. PDF pages 50–68 · printed pages 49–67. The English paragraphs are original editorial reading orientations, not reproduced or translated literary passages.