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.
Before thirty
Before Thirty is a short text that tells the story of several people who went through different circumstances and paradoxes. Life takes a turn for heroes several times, and they go through situations they were not prepared for, and some of them are forced to make painful decisions for themselves.
In the introduction to his first collection of short stories, the Chinese storyteller Lu Xun says that he found himself driven to write because he felt intense loneliness. He was not able to forget, or, rather, he was not able to forget completely; So, he wrote stories about the past.
This is exactly what prompted me to write: overwhelming loneliness. I also failed to forget, so I wrote what remained in my memory about Syria before the war.
Sometimes, exiles write about nostalgia for a country they miss and wish to return to. This is not like the nostalgia of Syrians: the country has completely changed, and even disappeared. We long for a place that does not exist, except in memory. And memory, as you know, writhes, colors, and churns. I am no exception, and my memory does not claim to be completely faithful to reality, but I tried hard to write exactly what you dictated to me.
Hopes, dreams, and losses are all fading quickly, and so is the country, and what remains of it is in us: as if it were a half-smile, or a summer cloud, or a bright comet passing quickly, only to disappear completely moments later, before the eyes of curious, bored viewers, indifferent to its fate...
Because today's generation does not like to read introductions, it is a generation of speed and a generation that likes to reach the end in the maximum time, a generation that loves reading but loves abbreviations, and loves writing with symbols, inscriptions and secrets.
Therefore, there is no introduction, but rather a simple beginning to introduce the topics of the book.
I started writing this on Monday, December 5, 2016 in Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco.
I committed a crime:
It is a collection of stories that talk about excerpts from situations that occurred in our reality, and each story has a different type of crime from the other.
And each story symbolizes a specific thing, or something that might cause something to break inside you?
“In this book there are six stories that are different from the others. Come and learn with me about the types of crimes in our real lives.”
سبعة عشر قصة قصيرة ستخلق لك عالما متكاملا من الإثارة والتشويق لأنها تلعب على وتر دقيق للغاية داخل كل منا وتر الإحساس بالغموض فالغموض هو أعظم عاطفة يشعر بها ...
Rabbits emerge from jacket sleeves, a car fixes a shed instead of a pole, and medical cotton speaks and makes sounds; These are some of the daily observations mixed with audio-visual hallucinations, narrated by a young drug addict, through a group of separate, connected short stories that describe the image of a world in which wakefulness and sleep are mixed, and reality and imagination.
In these stories, everything moves slowly, and the world is seen through a blur; As for death, it seems like a joke, even the feelings become numb; So that one laughs when one should cry.
Without lacking a sense of humor and bitter banter, Dennis Johnson presents in this collection an honest testimony about the lives of young addicts in the United States of America, and despite all the laughter and smiles generated by the book’s funny characters with their jokes and behavior, perhaps the reader will wonder at the end: Why does he feel this way? All sadness? It is a book written in the mouth of addicts, not about them, and describes their alienation and their connection with the world that is gradually fading.
تتحدث القصه عن " صغيره " الفتاة التي تعيش بالخارج لإكمال دراستها تتخرج و تعود إلى الكويت لتسكن مع شقيقها الأكبر في منزله تتوالى الأحداث و تنتقل إلى السكن
