"Chanca", "Texcacal", and "Chon Bum" are three cities in the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula that enjoyed great religious importance during the class war waged by the Mayas against the Spanish colonizers. The religious importance of these cities is due to their being centers of the phenomenon of speaking crosses.
In this wonderful book, the French writer (who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008) tells, with great poetry, about his observations in these towns, in a captivating style. The trees, the water, the wind, the forests, the sky, and the earth, all of them become humanized in Le Clezio’s writing, as He has a unique ability to transform nature and its elements into vibrant, sensual things.
فيه نصوص أدبية شاعرية وجميلة نشرها الماغوط في كتبه ومسرحياته. ألوم على دور نشر الكتاب وضعهم عبارة "نصوصه الجديدة" في المقدمة . وهي في الحقيقة ليست جديدة لأن الكتاب أصلا نُشر بعد وفاة الماغوط رحمة الله ووسع مدخله.
About the poetry collection “Ghalata Al-Shater”
The collection “Ghalata Al-Shater”, issued by Madad Publishing and Distribution House, which was launched at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair 2018, includes nearly seventy poems by the poet Hassan Al-Obaidli, ranging from sorrow, poetry, and emotional contemplations. The collection included many poems sung by major stars. The song includes the likes of: Kazem Al Saher, Muhammad Abdo, Abdul Majeed Abdullah, Rashid Al Majed, Hussein Al Jasmi, and the artists: Angham, Ahlam, Hind, and other stars of art in the Arab world.
After Martin Luther King was assassinated, Ray was able to escape with a fake passport, and as he moved from one country to another, he kept reading the newspapers, delighted to see his name on the list of the FBI's "ten most dangerous criminals." His journey finally lands him in Lisbon, where he spends ten days waiting for a visa to enter Angola. But Lisbon was also the city that inspired Antonio Muñoz Molina, his most famous novel, and when he now decided to write a novel about Ray, the city became witness to three alternating stories: a murderous man on the run from justice, a writer struggling to find his literary voice, and the writer himself. Thirty years later, he reflects on his life, the life of his hero, and the form of the novel in which he tries to imagine the world with the consciousness of another man.
In As a Shadow Departs, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2018, Molina writes a captivating, powerful, and detailed novel, integrating the fictional event with how it is written about.