“I am not Stiller!” The protagonist begins his writing with this phrase, and writes seven notebooks in order to prove that he is not who everyone insists he is. He confesses to unsolved murders, and tells the details of his previous life in Mexico and America among the cowboys and dock workers, but nevertheless, Stiller's wife, friends, and brother adhere to their opinion, while the hero of the novel writes what they say in his notebooks and comments on it, the life of that sculptor, and his emotional relationships. And marriage, and about art and artists and the ups and downs of their lives.
"Stieler" is considered one of the literary pearls, and one of the most important contemporary novels written in German. It is an exceptional novel about modern man and his fractured relationship with identity, and about the self-image of oneself and others. It is a novel written with tenderness and a complex artistic structure that is convincing and enjoyable at the same time. It highlights the exceptional ability of the famous Swiss writer, Max Frisch.
The collection “The Hidden One Who Survives Interpretation” includes 28 poems, some of which are short and some are long, and deals with emotional, national, philosophical and contemplative issues. The relationship with women constitutes an important axis in the collection based on the poet’s refined humane and civilized view of women. Exile also constitutes a major axis since the poet lives in exile. Many years ago. The poet also resorts to writing abstract, contemplative poems sometimes as a result of his interaction with external existence and his preoccupation with humanizing things. The collection in our hands is the eighth in the series of Anwar Al-Khatib’s poetry publications, and it comes in the context of his poetic project that aspires to establish a different language and a different, vibrant and diverse construction of the Arabic poem, so that it escapes itself from routine, repetition, and rigid templates.
Boatman:
Whoever reflects on what people say and do, arrives at the almost certain conclusion that they say one thing and do the complete opposite. You find them praising the philosophy of such-and-such thinker and the depth of his theses, but they do not follow his programs or read his publications. In return, they criticize such-and-such artist’s lifestyle and superficiality. Her ideas...but at the same time they follow all of her work, and do not miss an episode of it.
Personally, I am not surprised by this contradiction, for a fundamental reason... which is that it is an inherent part of human nature in all places and times... and the words that I am writing now, the great sociologist Abdul Rahman bin Khaldun preceded me six centuries ago, and perhaps many scholars before and after him... Therefore, we must recognize that the inherent natures of human beings do not change radically, but rather develop and improve if they find something that helps them to develop and improve.
It often happens that human natures remain as they are, stagnant, if they do not find the intellectual and moral nourishment that elevates them to the highest level. It also happens that they relapse, become brutal, and go back for many years if the nourishment is negative and worse off than before.
Consider the condition of the societies around us. Some of them have a better present than their past, and others have a better past than their present. The whole reason is due to the nature of the intellectual and moral nourishment to which their members are exposed.
