About the content of the book:
They are literary texts that vary between classical and Nabati prose and poetry, in which the heartbeats of love... joy... contemplation... silence... and sadness... are evident for the most beautiful years of life, the greatest joy, the happiest feeling, the most pain, and the bitterest sadness. .
Remembering his childhood, Miguel tells of a wooden statue the size of a man, carved by a musical instrument maker before his death, so the people of Itape decided to place it at the top of the hill, so that it would become a landmark of the village. Massive events and wars take place, and the novel branches out to narrate the events of two decades of Paraguayan history, before returning to that hill with its steadfast statue, which has become very symbolic.
Rua Bastos shows history from the perspective of ordinary people, poignantly depicting their attempts to rebel against authority, revealing the brutality of the ironies of history when these people are forced to kill and die in senseless wars that they fight while standing with the very authority against which they rebel.
Using a linear sequence in narrating the events of his novel, and painting a huge mural about Paraguay, Rua Bastos writes, in a tight plot, his novel, which the great Argentine writer Borges said was one of America’s best novels...
This book consists of two chapters: the first in which I try to analyze the womanizer’s personality and get closer to his mysterious and complicated inner world.
I do not need to say that these tricks are not used all at once, but rather in each case as it suits it. I am certain that many of them do not deceive women, but Dongguan does not care about how things will turn out. He throws away his lie and runs away!
Before I forget.. Don Juan is a character from Spanish folklore, who appeared for the first time in the play Magen Sevilla.. Legend says that he was a womanizer, and a famous lover, who seduced more than 1,000 women!
The ram ***
*It is as if Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is a “blow of fate” that we receive, causing us to wake up from a voluntary slumber and an involuntary faint.
When we read “The Ram” by Anwar Al-Khatib; We realize that a memory that does not contain some of that man’s creations is a distorted memory. It has the right to hide in shame or become scattered in vain.
We are overwhelmed with wonder as we ask the author: What imagination sweeps through you and storms your brain when you dress up with a brush to write and even draw a novel that combines surrealism, abstraction, fantasy... and realism?!
* With captivating imagination, we rode the water with you, and we were certain that illusion is the certain truth that we practice with merit and distinction.
* The novel is a painting or a choir playing one extremely wonderful symphony, and each individual player shows his special skill on his instrument. Then the maestro comes with his stick to bring everyone together in one musical arrangement. He connects all the threads of the novel, leaving you in a state of astonishing shock, or say madness.
* Al-Khatib accompanies the animal world with its splendor and sublime “humanity.” He avoids the human world with all its meanness and brutality, and I will not say its animality.. for animals have become more sublime than us.
* Amazement, par excellence, accompanies you from the beginning of the striking and question-provoking title, even as you close the second leaf of the book, announcing the end of reading. Then you discover that your mouth is still open with astonishment and astonishment. And perhaps we will remain on that platform of astonishment until he surprises us with his new edition.
