The shelter of absence is a place built of words. Everyone in it belongs to the world of his imagination, and lives in a state of obsessions and doubts. A scientist who surrenders to ambiguity and hieroglyphs and loves the mercury of impermanence and uncertainty. In this shelter, we do not know whether what we read are the preparations of the goddess of talisman, or if they are the same as the preparations of others. We do not know whether to believe her or to believe in the suffering writers who create themselves with the power of language and invent worlds and selves with words.
In “The Shelter of Absence,” we read about the wreckage of events and people, and about the brewing panic of perishing cities, in stories that belong to the imagination and the grotesque, as much as they derive from the devastation that occurs in reality as material for writing.
Critic Dr. Mohamed Al-Shahat believes that the narrative of “The Shelter of Absence” builds “on constructing an imaginative journey, with successive episodes, that questions the concepts of space, time, and human existence. In doing so, it searches for the essence of human communication beyond “language” in its common sense.”
Two percent 02%: There is nothing louder here than the sound of the trees’ light, not monotonous, under the sound of turbulent air between the breeze at times and the wind at other times, under a sky whose blue is gradually dissolving, turning to gray due to clouds that gather quickly from every direction and direction, as if they were the pillars of a war that had been called for an urgent and emergency meeting.
About the book:
In this book, there are flashes of life that help you take a minute with yourself and see if you still insist on what you are and consider correct?! Or will you stand up and put an end to some of them and take the right path with greater strength, determination and will?!
In 1920, the British philosopher, logician, and mathematician Bertrand Russell traveled on a short visit to Russia, a trip that brought him a lot of frustration, and later made him one of the most prominent critics of Bolshevism, or the “Russian experiment in communism,” without this meaning that he abandoned his support for socialism as an idea. Or a political approach.
In the first section of this book, Russell records his direct impressions of that visit, in the form of journalistic observations carried out by a committed leftist and first-class philosopher. While the second theoretical and philosophical section is devoted to presenting his main criticisms of Marxism and Bolshevism. Such as criticizing the Marxist philosophy of history, the psychological motives that drive man according to Marx, criticizing the Bolshevik vision of democracy, and refusing to repeat the Bolshevik experience in the West.
Russell presents his ideas to the average reader in a smooth manner without this meaning that he abandons the depth of treatment. Russell's experience and his relationship with a revolution he believed in and witnessed its failure may inspire many. Because it teaches them that changing the world for the better comes through honesty and criticism, and through learning from mistakes, and understanding those who committed them with idealism and courage.
... هي الأرض التي تخون فيها زوجتك و تبيع فيها دولتك و تكفر فيها بربك .. ولا تبالي .. فكل قانون على هذه الأرض سقط .. و كل قناع على هذا الوجه انكسر .. ولم تعد فيها إلا سافلا .. تسير مع السافلين .. ولا تبالي