No sea in Beirut
| Author | Ghada Al-Samman |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | |
| Country | Syria |
| Language | Arabic |
Publication date | 1963 |
| Pages | 160 |
"No sea in Beirut" (Arabic: لا بحر في بيروت) is a collection of stories by the Syrian writer Ghada Ahmed Al-Samman, considered a symbol of courage and freedom in Beirut in the Sixties, First published in 1963. The title of the novel does not reflect the content but is a collection of stories that tell about imaginary love, which is only in the stories.[1]
Content[edit]
This book consists of a collection of stories that tell about eternal love that does not exist in real life. The events of the novel take the reader like a lightning, taking his senses and pulling him into the unknown and then returning him to reality with either a shock or a tear. This collection of stories revolves around one axis: the woman who aspires to change life and the society that has surrounded her with restrictions that have nothing to do with humanity.
Stories in the collection[edit]
10 stories make up the collection:
- "The call of the ship" (original title: nda' alsafinati)
- "The Curse of the brown flesh” (original title: laenat allahm al'asmar)
- "The fangs of a lonely man" (original title: anyab rajul wahid)
- "Agria without a port" (original title: ejariat bila mirfain)
- "The shackle and the coffin" (original title: alqayd waltaabut)
- "The sixth finger" (original title: al'asbae alsaadisatu)
- "The man with two phones" (original title: alrajul dhu alhatifin)
- "Tired hobby" (original title: hiwayat muteabatun)
- "No sea in Beirut" (original title: la bahr fi bayrut)
- " No. 216 cries" (original title: wibki alraqm 216)[2]
Criticism[edit]
Ghada al-Samman's stories carry you to the depths of the soul troubled by darkness and flam, contradiction, and confusion. She doesn't stop when she sees and feels, she goes deeper and further, and to a greater sense of the momentum of life and the interaction of its opposites. She thinks that by doing so, she is agitated and that she does not want you to be satisfied with her nor with yourself.[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ "غادة السمّان: "لا بحر في بيروت"". الأخبار (in العربية). Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ↑ "كتاب لا بحر في بيروت غادة السمان PDF". المكتبة نت لـ تحميل كتب PDF (in العربية). 2020-04-23. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ↑ "لا بحر في بيروت by غادة السمان". web.archive.org. 2018-05-18. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
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