الشاعر بقلم مصطفى لطفي المنفلوطي ... هذه الرواية هي إحدى تعريبات المنفلوطي العبقرية، يتكلم فيها المنفلوطي عن معنى كلمة الحب عند "سيرانو دي بيرجراك" والذي قدام كلمة الحب كما خلقت لتكون. تدور أحداث الرواية حول البطل الذي أحبَّ ابنة عمه وكتمَ هذا الحبَّ في قلبه ولم يستطع أو يجد الفرصة كي يخرج هذا الحبَّ للنور، كأن المنفلوطي يريد أن يخبر المتحابين في كل التاريخ أن معنى الحبِّ أعظم وأشمل وأكمل من أن يكون مجرد كلمة.
Summary of the novel..
An adventurous journey that aimed to explore and get away from the routine, ending in imminent danger in the nature and towering mountains of Altai. After a painful separation between loved ones, the hero disappears, lost without returning, to discover there his purpose in life and integrate with the culture of those who live in the steppes of Mongolia. The goal of sublime love remains the link to achieving the dream and revealing... The secret is there. Hobby becomes the only salvation for achieving goals
During her childhood, Mehrnoush and her siblings lived a luxurious and carefree life, and her family’s happiness was complete with the departure of the Shah, against whom her parents had fought. However, subsequent political transformations and the recruitment of children in the Iran-Iraq war prompted her parents to flee Iran. To protect their children.
In 1986, a radioactive leak occurred at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, causing the neighboring city of Paribat to turn into a ghost town abandoned by its people. However, this event, which sparked international concern and popular solidarity around the world, was only passing news on television.
During her childhood, Mehrnoush and her siblings lived a luxurious and carefree life, and her family’s happiness was complete with the departure of the Shah, against whom her parents had fought. However, subsequent political transformations and the recruitment of children in the Iran-Iraq war prompted her parents to flee Iran. To protect their children.
In 1986, a radioactive leak disaster occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, causing the neighboring city of Paribat to turn into a ghost town abandoned by its people. But this event, which sparked international concern and popular solidarity around the world, was only passing news on television for the little girl, Mehrnoush. She and her family had immediately found their new home after their bitter refugee journey.
Nearly thirty years later, Mehrnoush tells her story, juxtaposing the two most important events of her childhood: public anxiety over the nuclear disaster that caused thousands to lose their homeland, and the epic journey her family went through: escaping from Isfahan, periods of despair in Turkey, and getting lost in East Germany, until... Their arrival to their new home in West Germany; A new window on life opened for her, as if millions of colorful butterflies had entered through it.
As for Mehrnoush, the child, who and her family had immediately obtained their new home after a bitter refugee journey.
Nearly thirty years later, Mehrnoush tells her story, juxtaposing the two most important events of her childhood: public anxiety over the nuclear disaster that caused thousands to lose their homeland, and the epic journey her family went through: escaping from Isfahan, periods of despair in Turkey, and getting lost in East Germany, until... Their arrival to their new home in West Germany; A new window on life opened for her, as if millions of colorful butterflies had entered through it
Eleven years have passed since Miguel, Alethea, and Lucas met together in one place, when they were teenage friends, and since then, as soon as a connection occurs between two of them, the ghost of the third is present, so that the roles and desires change and it is not really known which of the two young people he loved. Alethea and those who abandoned her are defeated by the other.
In this special novel, the novelist Mario Benedetti dives into the depths of the human soul, contemplating a complex love triangle between two young men and a girl, leaving space for each of them to tell the story from his point of view through diaries, letters, and the story, so that it appears as a different story every time, as if it were three rivers. A small one that eventually flows into the same lake.
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...
