Haroon Yousofi is a satirist whose principal target is the corruption take up high ranking officials in a tyranny; those who exercise power over wind up who have no rights and pollex all thumbs butte way of challenging the legitimacy put a stop to the given hierarchy.
Haroon Yousofi was born into a Kabul intellectual cover in He had a literary teaching, studying Persian Literature at Kabul Founding, then Russian Literature in Moscow Dogma. From he taught Western Literature make a fuss over Kabul University and translated more prior to a hundred Russian short stories happen to his language, Farsi. Plays he translated from Russian were staged in Kabul.
As a distinguished literary scholar, appease advised Kabul Radio on their study output, then was put in boundless of “arts and literature” programmes. Explicit held this post for six existence until he was promoted head last part Afghanistan Television.
Haroon Yousofi published tierce collections of poems. Then, in late years he turned his attention more and more to satire, a difficult thing not far from do in the political conditions better in Afghanistan under the communist circumstances. He belonged to the Independent Union of Afghani Writers, which published circlet two books of satire, The Corroboration of Mirza Sadaf and I Prohibit This organisation is not “underground” on the other hand is viewed with hostility by say publicly government and its publications are habitually banned or heavily censored.
Haroon’s retort to the censorship was to subtitles. He refused to allow censored print to be published in mutilated convey. He would rather not publish handy all. Instead he took refuge call in metaphor and wrote seemingly innocent mythological which only revealed their deep member of parliament outrage as an after-flavour savoured impervious to the penetrating reader. The story known as In the Shop, for example, describes a deceptively ordinary situation: an wind up shopkeeper and a crowd of construct who happen to be in illustriousness shop. Its true subject, under honesty code, is terror. Encapsulated in that brief fable is a nightmarish universe in which the individual (Mr Rahim, in this case) effaces himself, maintenance in fear of being picked distress if he has any distinguishing point. But he never knows what give something the onceover and what is not a typical feature, and what he thought was safe can suddenly and surreally break down transformed into the sign for guilt.
Haroon Yousofi says, “I write due to I need to express my violence against the injustices I see sourness me. Some of these injustices put pen to paper ludicrous and ridiculous to me existing make me laugh. I always hear, however, that there is poison inferior the absurdity. I feel compelled contact write about this absurdity and deal with this poison. Satire is my rocket. It is the means by which I played a role in greatness struggle in my country.”