Story · Memoirs of a Soldier
The Body
English finding-aid title for the scanned Persian text; not a published English translation title. Also indexed as The Corpse.
A soldier hitching a ride in the rain finds a covered body and a death certificate whose explanation the wounds contradict.
- 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
Returning from a few hours’ leave, the narrator climbs into a pickup carrying Khosrow’s body. Rain enters through the tarpaulin as his companions offer hesitant and conflicting answers about who he was and how he died. At a checkpoint, an inspecting soldier finds bullet wounds where the document records shrapnel. Source 1
The companions’ conversation indicates that Khosrow was killed by his own side after fighting without the required permission. Their grief also has an exhausting practical form: papers, inspection and a vehicle that will not start. The narrator eventually leaves in another truck; his last view is of Razzaq still standing beside the body’s stranded vehicle in the rain. Source 1
The scanned appearance
Jasad appears in Memoirs of a Soldier, PDF pages 17–27 · printed pages 16–26. The scanned colophon identifies Qoqnus and first edition autumn 1360. The story carries a memorial dedication. The date identifies the scanned volume, rather than an independently established composition date. The English title is a finding aid. Source 1
Sources & credits
- The Body · scanned Persian source
Jasad. Memoirs of a Soldier. The scanned colophon identifies Qoqnus and first edition autumn 1360. The story carries a memorial dedication. PDF pages 17–27 · printed pages 16–26. The English paragraphs are original editorial reading orientations, not reproduced or translated literary passages.