It is no longer necessary to stop at the picture written by Cervantes. There is a big difference between Don Quixote, which was written to make fun of him, or for any other purpose, and Don Quixote, which became our property, and we carried it in our imagination, subjected it to our perceptions, and we became free to remake and formulate it as we wish.
We can say that each of us has his own Don Quixote, whether he has read the novel or not, and whether he relies on the picture in the book or not. Whether he relied on his own interpretation of what was in the book, or projected into the book what he wanted.
The many faces of a character like Don Quixote give us the freedom and courage to express our own vision of him. Therefore, each of us is able to talk about the Don Quixote that he saw in the book, or the Don Quixote that he himself is raising in his symbolic and creative imagination.
Don Quixote is everywhere, and he is present in all of us. The Donquixote vision is one that does not give its owner the opportunity to retreat. There must be a pause that seems suicidal or crazy. Retreating in search of a new opportunity means overlooking the collapse that has occurred to humans and values. It means as if one overlooks deterioration. It is a kind of self-punishment to revive the consciences of others.
We can say in general that there must always be a Don Quixote pause so that honor does not die in life itself.
For this reason, it occurred to me one day to defend insanity.
تنقل الرواية بصدق عميق ما يدور في أعماق المرأة في حالة حب،ّ من أحاسيس وأفكار وتناقضات، إذ تظن أن الخيار الصعب إلى أقسى مداه يكمن في الحفاظ على مشاعر الحبّ
This book collects selected texts by twenty-one male and female poets from different cultural and social backgrounds, regardless of the reasons and ways they left Syria, even though most of them left after the outbreak of the revolution in early 2011. Today they live in various countries in the Arab world and outside it, and many of them live in Germany especially.
These selections are an attempt to shed light on the Syrian poetic experience emerging in exile, which carries within it the diversity of poets’ styles, experiences, opinions and ages, and presents a picture of the reality of Syrian poetry abroad, without evaluating it, but rather as a witness to the changes occurring in poetry and parallel to the changes in the earth. Although the features of this experience have not yet crystallized, it demonstrates effective attempts to take Syrian poetry to other directions that will inevitably lead to new places in Syrian writing.
"A true story that showcases the most important milestones of the author’s journey through life and the challenges she faced, presenting the essence of her experience and the tools she used to transform pain into hope and turn the impossible into possible."
