Shīb-i Tārīk-i Rāh: Persian 1403

The Dark Slope of the Road is the story of a week in the life of a writer who is both busy writing a new novel and a novel he has written but is struggling to publish, and is also busy with proofreading and rising rent and prices. In a way, it could be said that The Dark Slope of the Road is a story about a person taking refuge in imagination and solitude to endure or even escape from reality, a reality that has no mercy and does not understand philosophy, writing, or anything else. However, this refuge in imagination and solitude, like all such refuges in this existence, is not without reward, and the author of The Dark Slope of the Road is probably also taking refuge in imagination and solitude, which ultimately loses the boundary between fantasy and reality, and…