Damascus-SANA
The Cultural Center in Abu Rummaneh hosted a critical seminar on the novel “Behind the Curtains of Vienna”, the first publication of the expatriate writer Loris Al-Farah.
The participants in the symposium presented a set of critical readings of the novel, where the media, Ilham Sultan, saw that “behind the curtains of Vienna” delves into the depths of the human soul and its characters are present in each one of us. And the amazing plot.
In turn, the narrator Ayman Al-Hassan found that the novel talks about a painful reality as a result of the loss of interest among people through the suffering of a wife from the absence of her husband, pointing out that the novel was written in a smooth language without complexity and far from sophistication, embellishment and exaggeration.
The novelist, Dr. Hassan Hamid, explained that he participated in the symposium to talk about the novel because it deserves to be read, publicized, and defined, especially since the writer is looking for the first time on the cultural scene.
"Behind the Curtains of Vienna", according to Hamid, also includes a number of narrative techniques that the writer worked on through a series of circles, closures, and plurality of voices.
Hadi Omran