After his return to the island, Manuel decides to dig into the past to recover the details of the murder of the man he adopted. He also tries to get to know more about the wife of Khatha, the mysterious man whom he had only met briefly, but who left a great impression on him. “Khitha,” the absent man, is the most present in the novel, and his presence will change the fate of the lives of its characters, including his wife, who irrevocably left her previous life and went on to rediscover herself after her meeting with him.
In the novel “Soldiers Cry at Night,” Anna Maria Matute attempts to experiment with new narrative methods based on mixing the narrators’ voices so that the speech of all the characters seems, in one way or another, to be one continuous dialogue. The dense, highly sensitive and delicate spectrum of characters in this novel will continue to haunt the reader and motivate him to re-read the book, which ended prematurely, leaving many outstanding questions.
Contemplating the stick creates the impression that it does not mean anything. It is just a whip, thin or thick, depending on the personality and mission of the one carrying it. It may be made of bamboo, the limbs of a tamarisk or brown tree, or anything. It may be expensive, and a person may pick it from the ground. At no cost. But these things that do not mean anything carry meanings, and conjuring up the image of their presence among others may indicate to you that they are very important, and that they are everything to us here. In black Africa, in Australia, and among the inhabitants of the Alps, it is carried by the old, the young, and the elders of the people, and in the hands of the guard and the shepherd, and it is used by the cleric, as well as the magician and the sorcerer, and you find it solid in the military, moved by the music melody of the maestro, and in all parts of the world it is present, and in every tenses
عن ماذا يتحدث كتاب جحيم العابرين؟
كتاب جحيم العابرين يبدأ برواية قصة شاب تعطلت سيارته على هذا الطريق بسبب نقصان الوقود، وفي أثناء انتظاره تمر عليه فتاة يطلب منها أن تقله إلى أقرب طلمبة وقود وهناك تحدث لك الكثير من الأحداث المرعبة ويكتشف الشاب في النهاية أن تلك الفتاة هي جحيم العابرين والتي تقتل كل من يأتي بهذا الشارع.
