ISBN publikacji: 978-2-9601012-8-7

This paper aims to re-comment Ḫalilullāh Ḫaliliʼs "Ayyār-i az Ḫorāsān (A Vagabond from Khorasan) using the analytic category of '(re-)constructed'. The term constructed suggests that a writer forms his literary characters, names them and endows with personalities, while re-constructed indicates that he uses previously existing figures rather than creating new ones. The following question arises here: Does Ḫalilullāh Ḫalili create his own version/vision of Habibullāh Kalakāni or does he merely set Habibullāh Kalakāni into the framework of his own book? In other words,does he present a romantic or real vision of Habibullāh Kalakāni? As we shall see, it is impossible to answer such questions unambiguously, omitting the issue of the literary genre represented by his novel.