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272 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2019
إن الرواياتِ، في جلّها، احتفاءٌ بالغرابة
�He imagined the rabbits were leaving behind little tokens of love, doomed souvenirs to remind humankind, forgetful by nature, that their organizations were always susceptible to penetration.�
HUMAN EXISTENCE IS SUFFERING.
THE ROOT OF SUFFERING IS DESIRE.
THE ROOT OF DESIRE IS IMAGINATION.
�The system was arbitrary and irrational, a bureaucracy with neither head nor tail, like a poem by Baudelaire…Over the past ten years, it has become clear to me how many of our freedoms have been curtailed. What the censor used to approve in the nineties is banned today. The state has rolled back decades of progress while society—with the help of the latest platforms and technology—has gained access to content so vast it’s impossible to censor. It’s our exclusively homegrown version of Alice’s Wonderland, absurd and devoid of logic. The only difference is that it’s far from what any of us would call fun.�
�Underneath the thin shell of erring language—guilty of indecency, blasphemy, inciting coups, and more—there was a delicate, strange world he was dying to touch.�
�If it were destroyed, everyone who’d survived in the story would be gone too. There would be no one left to remember the ones who had died. The balance of the world goes horrible askew when a story is confiscated, it becomes a darker, more ominous place.�
حينئذ يسأل رجل أعمى: أسمعت شيئًا؟ ثلاث طلقات، أجابه آخر: لكن كان هناك أيضًا كلب يعوي. رُبما أصابته الطلقة الثالثة. الحمد لله؛ فأنا أبغض الكلاب. جوزيه ساراماغو - البصيرة
على الكتاب أن يكون الفأس التي تكسر البحر المتجمد فينا. كافكا
إن الروايات في جلّها؛ احتفاءٌ بالغرابة. بُثينة العيسى - حارس سطح العالم
أنا لست بطلًا، في الحقيقة أنا أكره الأبطال. هل أنت بطل يا أخي؟ إيّاك أن تكون بطلًا. بُثينة العيسى - حارس سطح العالم