Damascus-Sana
The novel “When the Wind Cries” by Nazik Daly Hassan deals with the concerns of oriental women in the countryside and their ability to succeed if they have real life paths to become an effective and important component of society.
Regarding this novel, the Arab Cultural Center in the field held a critical seminar with the aim of highlighting its weaknesses and strengths. When its passive role, whether in the hut and the village, the alleys, the streets, and the capital, with their differences
In addition to the effects of the place on the heroine of the novel, referring to the smooth style and the easy and enjoyable poetic language in the novel, the dialogue often disproportionate to the characters, and the solutions to situations tended to provoke without affecting the social message of the novel in the necessity of women's freedom from male domination.
The critic Ahmed Hilal found that the novel, which belongs to classical realism, moved from the space of the village and its popular narrative to the space of the city and its ramifications. In the village, it presented a model for women crushed by customs and traditions, and another for elusive women, pointing out that “when the wind groans” occurred in some of its joints with the trap of construction and did not open to the modernity of the form The content and what is forgiven it is that it is the author's first fictional work in addition to her dedication to the historical context.
Novelist Daly Hassan explained that her novel dealt with the concerns of rural women in a realistic way, leaving the recipient to search for a solution, as there are situations that she intentionally missed, indicating their agreement with some of what the critics said and their disagreement with each other.
The media seminar was moderated by Kawkab Al-Ahmad and left the door to discussion for some of the attendees who gave their critical interventions and questions, such as novelist Muhammad Ahmad Al-Taher.
Bilal Ahmad