بارن باگه الفارسية 1447

Perhaps the catastrophe that led his regiment into that place, and the sacrifice of so many men and horses, was simply so that what could no longer occur in the realm of life—because it was too late for it to happen—might take place after life, that is, in the realm of death. Lernet-Holenia’s imagination, just like a dream, traverses all boundaries of time and space, stepping onto the Styx so that the dead and the living may sit together at a table without any ceremony, as if all existence possesses a unified being. The claustrophobic quality of this story lies in its concise and dense prose, flowing in an unbroken, unstoppable stream, enriched and intensified by a poetic force that belongs only to a poet whose expressive form is fundamentally lyrical poetry.