Muḥammad Khuḍayyir (b. 1942) wrote his early short stories in the aftermath of the 1967 war, while his 1980s short fiction responded indirectly to the reality of Basra during the long war with Iran. This article traces the development of Khuḍayyir’s fiction, with a particular focus on the use of imagery in a selection of his key stories from the 1970s and 1980s, some of which were re-published and re-evaluated in the 1990s and 2000s. The increasingly unconventional and oblique ways in which Khuḍayyir represents and responds to war set his work apart from both the official pro-war rhetoric promoted by the Baʿth party during its time in power, and the prevailing literary depiction of Iraq in the works of more highly acclaimed Iraqi writers publishing today.

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秋天的异象：战争和穆罕默德·库哈伊尔的意象

Muḥammad Khuḍayyir（生于 1942 年）在 1967 年战争之后撰写了他的早期短篇小说，而他的 1980 年代短篇小说则间接回应了与伊朗长期战争期间巴士拉的现实。本文追溯了 Khuḍayyir 小说的发展，特别关注图像在他 1970 年代和 1980 年代精选的主要故事中的使用，其中一些在 1990 年代和 2000 年代重新出版和重新评估。Khuḍayyir 对战争的表现和反应越来越非传统和倾斜的方式使他的作品与复兴党执政期间所提倡的官方亲战言论以及在更高度评价的作品中盛行的对伊拉克的文学描述不同。备受赞誉的伊拉克作家今天出版。