Damascus - Sana
Structure of the story and the nature of narration in the story collection Maze of Love for the storyteller and novelist Awad Saud Al-Awad The title of the symposium held by the Damascus branch of the Arab Writers Union with the participation of a group of critics.
Dr. Abd al-Karim Hussein described the group’s title with the pseudonym preceded to him as if it were a ready-made template placed on the work and then presented his observations on the book from the weakness of the audience for the group’s stories, the writer’s focus on a character or two, and the neglect of the external parties that were behind the terrorists in terms of financing and directing them, pointing at the same time to success Al-Awad in establishing an overlap between the literary genres of philosophy and poetry and that this is a doctrine that the West returned to after leaving it for a while.
Critic Ahmed Hilal noted in his intervention that Al-Awad approached the labyrinth of love in an artistic form that is not new, but rather sought to diversify it by adding texts and discourse introductions to the point that the reader feels that the texts carry all the elements of the story just because he read any of them, and this gave the stories a semantic richness.
As for the author of the group Awad, he considered that the critical vision presented by the researchers was enriching the group, whether negative or positive, because the text that does not deal with criticism is not worthy of reading.
The seminar was moderated by novelist Ayman al-Hassan, and a number of writers participated in their interventions, including Helena Atallah, Diaa al-Habash, Ahmad Ali Muhammad, Caliph Amouri and Sobhi Saeed.
Bilal Ahmad