The presence of history in the Arabic novel opens the intellectual seminars program of the Syrian Book Fair

Damascus-SANA

The presence of history in the Syrian and Arab novel was the focus of the intellectual symposium hosted by the Al-Assad National Library today as part of the activities of the second day of the Syrian Book Fair.

The symposium, which opened the program of seminars accompanying the book fair, came under the title “The Novel is the History of the One Who Has No History,” during which examples of well-known novels were presented. People and touched their hopes and pain.

The translator Hossam Khaddour, on behalf of the critic Nazir Jaafar, who was absent for health reasons, read an intervention on the historical reference of the novelist Ali Ahmed Bakathir, referring to the studies that dealt with his poetic and historical plays.

As for the writer Khalil Sweileh, he talked about how to write the novel, pointing out that it is a process of historical narrative and self-imagining, and the original novel is the one that depends on disclosure and document.

As for Dr. Magda Hammoud, she talked about the relationship of the novel with history and autobiographies, which is called the historical novel, explaining that the biography combines the individual and the collective ego in its intervention between criticism and study in a systematic and applied manner.

Muhammad Khaled Al-Khidr and Hadi Omran