THE HISTORICAL NOVEL IN PASHTO LITERATURE AND ITS GENRE ISSUES

Abstract

The emergence of the historical novel genre in Pashto literature dates back to the second half of the last century. Such novelists as Ghulam Ghaus Khaybari, Muhammad Ibrohim Atoyi, Said Rasul Raso and Zubayr Shafiqi made a great contribution to the development of the historical novel genre in Pashto literature. This article briefly analyzes the works of the above-mentioned novelists “The Flame of Fire”, “The Girl from Arakhosia and Alexander the Great” and “The Storm in the Heart of Asia”. The analysis focuses on the issue of interpretation of historical reality in the novels as well as their fictionality.