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Jamboree: Activity Book B
صنع الله إبرا هيم... ماذا كتب؟!! وكيف كتب؟!! تلك الرائحة، والقصص الأخرى منذ اللحظة التي قرر فيها أن يهب حياته لهذا الفن، راوده هذان السؤالان، وأحياناً ما كان يضرب عرض الحائط بالشقّ الأول من السؤال، متحدياً بسذاجة الشاب وحماسه، الصياغة التي ألهبت خياله في الخمسينات للعلاقة بين صورة العمل الفني ومضمونه.فقد كان التمرد هو طابع الفترة، والتجربة شعارها. وبعد أن كتب يومياته تلك التي كانت بعد خروجه من السجن حينما كان خاضعاً للرقابة القضائية التي تستلزم تواجده في المنزل من غروب الشمس حتى شروقها، كان يجد حينها نفسه مندفعاً في تلك الساعات لتسجيل لمسات سريعة ما مر به من أحداث ومشاهدات كانت تهزه بعنف وتبدو له عجائبية ثم يزيحها ويعود إلى رواية بدأها في السجن عن عالم الطفولة، تتألف من عدة قصص مستقلة تجمع بين الشخصيات الرئيسية والموضوع العام، منها هذه القصص "أرسين لوبين" و"أغاني المساء"...هكذا كتب صنع الله إبراهيم قصصه من خلال توهج الحلم والألم، من خلال ظلال الحرية وقضبان العبودية الفكرية والجسدية، يكتب ليسجل واقعاً ما، في زمن ما، لإنسان ما…
118 pages, Paperback
Published August 16, 2005
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October 29, 2017
trivial seriousness or serious trivia
Life is certainly made up of mostly trivial events and repeated patterns which are in themselves uninteresting. Even death, success, failure, and love can be lost in an overwhelming mass of trivial events.
"I got up, I brushed my teeth, I ate a piece of toast with apricot jam, I put on my clothes and didn't put my pajamas away, I went out, saw a yellow Volvo heading down the street, then my brother called me on my cell phone and told me that our mother died."
If this sort of narration interests you, you will like THE SMELL OF IT. The ambience is Cairo/Egypt of the 1960s, not a time or place which would be familiar to most English readers of today. But that could make things more interesting. The author spent five years in prison for political reasons, so his experiences and attitude are reflected in the writing too. The five stories in this collection have a sad atmosphere which surrounds the tales of lower middle class Egyptian life of the time---an ex-prisoner's alienation, a fear of open spaces and raw nature, a child's view of divorce and war, an isolated family vs. the world. All of these stories are embedded in a mass of trivia that indeed does surround us, but may or may not constitute satisfactory reading material for you.
The author took this minimalist style in this, his early work. Later he wrote more directly political material. He is one of the important Egyptian writers, but not much translated into English.
Life is certainly made up of mostly trivial events and repeated patterns which are in themselves uninteresting. Even death, success, failure, and love can be lost in an overwhelming mass of trivial events.
"I got up, I brushed my teeth, I ate a piece of toast with apricot jam, I put on my clothes and didn't put my pajamas away, I went out, saw a yellow Volvo heading down the street, then my brother called me on my cell phone and told me that our mother died."
If this sort of narration interests you, you will like THE SMELL OF IT. The ambience is Cairo/Egypt of the 1960s, not a time or place which would be familiar to most English readers of today. But that could make things more interesting. The author spent five years in prison for political reasons, so his experiences and attitude are reflected in the writing too. The five stories in this collection have a sad atmosphere which surrounds the tales of lower middle class Egyptian life of the time---an ex-prisoner's alienation, a fear of open spaces and raw nature, a child's view of divorce and war, an isolated family vs. the world. All of these stories are embedded in a mass of trivia that indeed does surround us, but may or may not constitute satisfactory reading material for you.
The author took this minimalist style in this, his early work. Later he wrote more directly political material. He is one of the important Egyptian writers, but not much translated into English.
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