Damascus-Sana
The story “Different Madness” is a collection of stories by Sobhi Hamsho in which he takes a different approach and divides his short stories into sub-titles or episodes of his fictional sequence.
These stories are characterized by an attractive selection of the title that prompts the reader to inquire and love to learn about its content, as in the second story of the group “Love and Death with Love” as it includes the subtitles “Pain ... Love ... Death ...”.
The group addresses a number of subjective, emotional and social issues that have taken on a police garb, such as the stories “In Prison,” “The Execution of a Corrupt Man,” and “Hitman's Hysteria.”
Modernism and the poetic symbolic language are not absent from the group’s stories, in addition to the dialogue that is consistent with the narration and with the characters of the group’s stories.
The collection issued by the Syrian General Book Authority is located in 195 pages of medium volume.
It is noteworthy that the storyteller Hamsho, born in Aleppo, holds a law degree, and began his literary life by publishing short stories in Syrian and Arab newspapers and magazines.
Bilal Ahmad