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Intizar Hussain

    Intizar Husain gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Urdu-Schriftsteller. Seine Werke befassen sich häufig mit Themen wie Migration, Identität und der verlorenen islamischen Welt. Husain verband meisterhaft die heutige Realität mit historischen Visionen und untersuchte die Auswirkungen politischer Regime auf das menschliche Leben. Sein Schreiben zeichnet sich durch tiefen Einblick in die menschliche Psyche und eine melancholische Atmosphäre aus.

    The Death of Sheherzad
    • The Death of Sheherzad

      • 179 Seiten
      • 7 Lesestunden
      3,6(50)Abgeben

      'Intizar Husain's stories often tread that twilight zone between fable and parable. His narratives are spun on an oriental loom' - Keki N. Daruwalla A man scours the town he left fifty years ago for some little evidence of past joys. Javed, who's returned to Lahore from East Pakistan, won't speak of what he witnessed 'there'. An old woman boards a train full of dead ancestors in her dreams. A sage who cannot control his anger must seek out a butcher for redemption. Mahaban, home of the monkeys once, is now a city full of human beings. Sheherzad, who once told Emperor Shaharyar a thousand-and-one stories, is now an old woman who has forgotten her yarns of fantasy. The stories in The Death of Sheherzad ably represent Intizar Husain's oeuvre, defying narrative tradition and exploring the past, specifically Partition, as a means of unravelling the present. He imaginatively revisits a syncretic, tolerant pluralistic past to analyse why the tide turned so irreversibly. Questioning everything - faith, violence, society - Husain probes the horrors of Partition in a manner as oblique as it is trenchant. Imbued with dark wit and literary brilliance, these stories at once shock, agitate and entertain.

      The Death of Sheherzad