“History pushes us to questions about its course, which we answer sometimes, and many times confusion remains a prisoner of souls and chance, until awakening comes to strike our consciences through one of those honest creations that refresh memory, such as the letter that Fernando Arrabal addressed in 1971 to General Francisco Franco (President of Spain 1939- 1975) to argue with him about the great Spanish Civil War - as some Spaniards described it - and then about the regime imposed by the general after the war. It is a cry for freedom and a spontaneous testimony from within the fence that shackled Spain in the furnace of war, turmoil, and dictatorship. The message was spread without interruption in France, Spain, and Argentina in
Many publications, the last of which was published in 2011. Sincere satire, pain and heartbreak over a lost homeland, eternal exile, in addition to the life of the writer Fernando Arrabal, which is full of creative productions in theatre, cinema, literature, poetry, chess, etc. All of this makes this book a journey to learn - perhaps - about... “The Condition of Spain in the Age of Grievous Mourning.”
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.
. لسنا هنا لنتاجر بأحلام بأحلامك لكن لدينا أسوأ كوابيسك. أخبرني يا صديقي هل سمعت عن الوحش الذي يلعب الغميضة مع أطفال تلك القرية؟ هل علمت بشأن جريمة القتل الغامضة التي حدثت في أحد الفنادق النائية؟
أثار كتاب الشعر الجاهلي ﻟ «طه حسين» موجة عاتية من النقد والجدال الذي أخذ عدة نواحي فكرية ودينية وأدبية، وتسببت بعض الأفكار الجامحة الواردة في الكتاب في اتهام مؤلفه بالكفر والزندقة، ولما كان منهج الأدباء والمفكرين في الرد على خصومهم يلجأ لمقارعة الحجة بالحجة، وعرض الحقائق والأفكار فقد انبرى عدة مفكرين كبار لتفنيد ما جاء بهذا الكتاب وكان «الرافعي» أبرزهم، حيث انتصر للدفاع عن تراثنا القديم كما بين بعض المغالطات التي ذكرها حسين، وقد ارتكز المؤلف في دفاعه على ذخيرته من الثقافة الإسلامية خاصةً آيات القرآن الكريم وتفسيره، فكان هذا الدفاع تحت راية القرآن العظيم
