The characters of this novel are searching for a different life. Some of them leave their work in the cotton factory and become sex workers in the hot springs resort, while one of them enters prison of his own accord in search of calm. A third goes to her hometown, discovering strange caves and tunnels, while a fourth chooses a refuge in A rural province, where Chinese herbs are used in traditional medicine. These characters are intertwined in multiple emotional and physical relationships, while each of them seems like a mirror of the other, as the story of each of them begins where the previous one left off, in a fluid temporal structure. In this novel, which was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2019, Tsun Shieh writes about the meaning of life in its relationship to love, sex, birthplace and work, and about the vanishing border between life and death, between wakefulness and sleep, in a blurry and turbulent plot full of sensual descriptions and vivid metaphors. , its aspects resonate with echoes of magical realism.
Human comedy: By “human comedy,” I mean what I understood while I was still young, crude, and inadequate, namely the absurdity and amusements of human beings. Rather, I go further than Aristotle did in his definition of the word comedy, where he said: (Comedy is what causes laughter, rather than the defect that does not cause pain). As for me, I mean by comedy here, it is immorality, farce, play, contempt, recklessness, confusion, and the chaos of humanity, and there is no laughter in it. For me, comedy does not inspire reverence like the comedy of the Greeks or Dante, and it does not call for laughter like the comedy of Aristotle. Rather, it is a funny, crying comedy because of its contradiction and absurdity, and to those who say that humanity has accomplished a lot, I say that even if there are any notable highlights, achievements, or progress, they are the results of random interactions, scrambles, and quarrels that are unplanned and unplanned, like a gambler who sometimes wins and often loses, but it is an ungrateful gain. Or he should be praised for it, but it did not come from thought or action. Rather, it is absurdity, experimentation, and play.
. وتحاول أن تُرهبَني بعذاب ما بعد الموت! ... أرحم لي من أنْ أستقبلَه وحُجَّتي أنَّني مع القَطيع!”
Poor awareness: Poor People of Consciousness, a book that includes stories mixed with the bitterness of reality and the texture of imagination, where I narrated the events of the stories so that I could raise the problems faced by some groups of people and according to the experiences of souls who suffered from the injustice of suffering. Stories that captivate the reader and make him think about their details, live their events, and compare them with his mistakes if he finds a similarity in them, so that he can think and make a decision... whether to continue or to rise to the highest levels of awareness and be enriched by them. The stories are not true, but the extent of the suffering is real and based on the reality of hearts that suffered from the bitterness of ignorance and the control of negativity, hearts that did not learn until they suffered and lost a lot, hearts that paid an abominable price for their ignorance of the secrets of life. Stories that make the reader think Stories that make the reader learn and educate Stories for lessons and benefits Stories that positively change the way minds think Stories are not just for entertainment Stories that elevate you to be among the list of rich intellectuals Sometimes I wonder, why don't we learn until we hurt? Why cannot we learn from the mistakes of others and reach the stage of awareness? It is true that experiences increase our experience in life, but why do we not make awareness reach maturity by learning from the mistakes of others and striving towards positive change in our lives? The goal I seek in telling these stories is not just a narration of events, but rather to convey the ideas and lesson from each story to the honorable reader, as life is about lessons that we learn from the experiences we go through, and in the end the lesson is not to repeat mistakes and enhance awareness of the positives. My prayer is that everyone will benefit from reading the stories I mentioned. A person may see himself in a similar situation and may think I mentioned it, but that is not the point of publishing the book.
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