"Life is hard, and I set off again with my broken oar." From Borges's "Biographies of Villains".

"The Biography of Villains" was published in 1935. ***Collection of 9 short stories. Several different "villain" images have been created. The background of the protagonist's activities in "The Biography of Villains" includes Japan and China in the 17th and 18th centuries, the United States, Britain, and Turkestan in the 19th century. The areas where the "villains" live range from the Mississippi River to the coast of China, from the poor towns of Turkestan to the prosperous and decadent London, the slums of New York, from the desert to the palace, and they all have bizarre social backgrounds.

There is Tom Castro, the son of a butcher who spent a boring and pitiful childhood in the slums of London; the golden widow who roamed the waters of Asia from the Yellow Sea to the Annan border river; and the golden widow who was born in Turkestan. "Life is tiring". Most of the protagonists in Hakim's works, who grew up in the ancient city of Merv, live in extremely harsh environments, living in poverty, with no culture, mixed races, and an environment full of filth and violence. There are no Axiom, disorder, is the dead end of society.