مخلوقات الأشواق الطائرة

by Edwar Al-Kharrat, إدوار الخراط

109 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Edwar al-Kharrat or Edward al-Kharrat(Arabic: إدوار الخراط) was an Egyptian translator, writer, and editor of several literary magazines.

Reviews

[Mahmoud Amr]

"Creatures of the flying longings" is a collection of artsy/surreal pieces, written in August 1989. I first thought it was another story collection. But Al-Kharrat never fails to surprise me every time. I started reading and found 9 short pieces that can hardly be categorized as fiction at all. Its like 9 prose poems. Every piece is a mix of dream sequences/ fragmented recollection of probably moments from the author's life/ weird mystical, philosophical musings fused with big time spiritual ecstacy like revalations- mostly in a coptic christian or ancient egyptian mythos settings and imagery-/ Eros and thanatos-physics i.e materialism & metaphysics dialectics and of course Edward's sublime prose.
I dont know if this collection has ever been translated into eng. It a shame. That's why I try to write about obscure arabic- and other non western lit- just to shed some lights on the fact that there are more colours in the rainbow spectrum.

[Fikri]

رواية جيدة ...فيها أسلوب شعري ربما مع أنني لم أفهم كثيرا من الرموز ...الجسد والقرد والاسماك والحمام وبعض الأماكن في مصر والفن والفنانين....خلطة عجيبة ضعت معه في اول قراءة لهذا الكاتب أدوار الخراط...

[مينا ساهر]

لست أدري ما الذي قصده ادوارد الخراط في هذا الكتاب تحديداً ..
هناك قرءات عديدة و رؤى عديدة للنصوص التي وضعها. لكنها تجتمع في أنها غير ممتعه