Novel
Фирдавсӣ
Not translated into English
Sotim Ulughzoda · 1986
Synopsis
Фирдавсӣ (Firdavsi): a biographical novel devoted to Ferdowsi, the Persian poet of the Shahnameh. The narrative follows the long labour of composing the epic; in the background appear the poet's family, his wife, and his difficult relations with the powerful of his time. Its hero is a man of letters for whom literature matters more than the world around him.
Context
The novel appeared in 1986 according to Iranica, nearly thirty years after the play the author had devoted to another Persian poet, Rudaki, in 1958. Tajik critics hesitate whether to rank it among historical novels or among fictionalised biographies; Dj. Muruvvatiyon sees it in 2018 as the first philological novel of Tajik literature, whose hero is a scholar and whose subject is his craft. The author revised it after its publication; it was reissued in Dushanbe in 2014 and adapted into Persian by Mohammadreza Marashipour, from Niloufar in Tehran.
Who it is for
For discovering the life of the Persian poet told by a great Tajik prose writer, in a book without a French translation.
Prizes and reception
Dj. Muruvvatiyon holds it to be the first Tajik novel to meet all the criteria of the philological novel.
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