«Adab-e Biqarari»; The Story of a Contemporary Human Who Has Lost Peace
According to the correspondent of the Iran Book News Agency (IBNA) in Karaj, the 85th meeting of the book club of the cultural and artistic institute «Read with Us» is dedicated to the review and critique of the novel «Adab-e Biqarari» written by Yaghoub Yadali. This meeting will be held on Sunday, Aban 18th, from 4 PM to 6 PM at Honar House, Harmony Center in Karaj.
The short novel Adab-e Biqarari is one of Yaghoub Yadali’s most prominent works, published in 2004, and won the title of best novel of the year in the fifth period of the Houshang Golshiri Award.
The novel begins with a depiction of a smoking man whose mind is preoccupied with the death of Engineer Kamran Khosravi; a character who we gradually realize is himself on the border between reality and imagination. Khosravi is a man tired of family and social relations, searching for a lost meaning amidst daily routines. Yadali, with a precise and internal language, portrays the emptiness, desire, and restlessness of contemporary man in a concise and thought-provoking story.
In a part of the novel, the narrator says: ‘I like the sunset to happen in the middle of a journey; if it’s at the beginning, I feel sad, and if it’s at the end, it’s even worse. I get annoyed by sunrise, because it belongs to those who think or want to reach somewhere one day, or to the unfortunate people who are forced to leave home early in the morning for a piece of bread to survive.’
This sentence is an epitome of the novel’s bitter and contemplative world; a world where sunset is a sign of human weariness and boredom from the repetition of daily life.
The selection of this novel for review in the latest meeting of the book club is an opportunity for discussion about one of the most important works of the 1980s and a re-reading of the fictional world of an author whose voice oscillated between silence and protest. In this session, critics and club members will discuss the narrative structure, the narrator’s tone, and the relationship between ethics, desire, and isolation in the work.
The cultural and artistic institute «Read with Us» has invited all literature enthusiasts to attend this meeting and participate in a collective discussion about a novel whose questions, even after two decades, remain unanswered in our time.
