The little boy escapes from the midwife's hands, and all attempts to catch him fail, until Abu Muharib, a retired policeman who suffers from rheumatism, intervenes, using his old hunting experience.
The chapters of the story continue, until the moment in which the reader finds himself facing a world in which reality is mixed with its strict natural laws, and imagination soaring on the same wings that changed the course of (the little one’s) life with her presence first, and her absence next..
What wings are these where scissors, scalpels, knives and guns lurk?
Who are those howling in the background?
What fate did those living below end up with?
The novel raises many questions, then stops at this point, shirking the burden of definitive answers, and assuming that the reader will not be let down by the wings of his imagination in reaching an answer.
Life is a drama, and drama is a drama within this drama, and most of it talks about this drama that emerges from it, and the process of acting is the enemy of this drama. The more we are honest in presenting this drama, and the more we are spontaneous, the more we seem real, and the exact opposite is true. When you look like you are acting, you will be closer to failure, and farther away from the audience’s love. Even a clown must clown with sincerity and spontaneity that makes him appear real. Our example is Charlie Chaplin, who used clown tools in all his roles that people know, and the audience interacted with the humanitarian issues that he raised and sympathized with them. .
We all know that what is presented on the screen are nothing but events that have no basis, so we think, but why do we follow them if we believe that? We follow it because we are in fact the heroes of this drama: its author, director, actor, and the rest of its makers speak in our name, act for us, and represent us at the same time, and when we follow them we are watching ourselves, or details from it.
This collection presents a group of stories that attempt to approach the worlds of drama in one way or another, in writing and acting.
ذا كتاب عن الرمز والترميز في الثقافة الدارجة و" الراقية"، وفي الأدب؛ شعره ونثره، في النصوص اللغويّة والبصريّة. يتأسس الكتاب على مهاد عن الرمز والترميز، ولغات التواصل البشري غير اللفظي، والكلام بغير كلام، ويشتمل فصولًا يتناول كلٌّ منها رمزًا بالمناقشة؛ من القمر إلى الكهف، والباب، والبحر، إلى العين واللون الأسود، وغير ذلك من رموز، ويستعرض بعض تجليات ذلك الرمز في الثقافة والأدب، في الشرق والغرب. ثم يتناول نصًّا أدبيًّا يظهر فيه الرمز بجلاء، ويؤدي دورًا مهمًّا في إنتاج دلالة النّص. يشمل الكتاب كذلك نصوصًا متضمنّة تشير إلى بعض ما فيه من مفاهيم وأفكار وموضوعات. من غايات هذه النصوص الصغرى الاستطرادُ، ودفعُ الملالة والسأم، وفتح آفاق تحليل جديدة. وفي الكتاب عبارات وجُمَل ونصوص من لهجات عربيّة - خصوصا لغة أهل مصر- ترد في الكتاب على هيئتها، لا باللغة العربية الفصحى؛ ليبقى زخمها الثقافي بلا نقصان. ( إلّا رمزًا) كتاب يومئ ويشير، لكنّه لا يحيط. يحتفي بالرمز والترميز، وبالإنسان؛ مدار الترميز، وبالنّصوص الأدبية والثقافيّة؛ تلك الحقول التي تنمو فيها الرموز وتثمر
