Damascus-SANA
Laughing is not the only goal of satirical literature, but it has more profound goals, including pointing out mistakes and working to fix them, and uplifting societies and ridding them of negativity.
This prompted dedicating the symposium held at the Palestinian Writers and Journalists Union to highlight the comic writer Dr. Muhammad Amer Mardini's collection (stomach acidity).
Critic Ahlam Ghanem saw that the group is distinguished by its honesty, keeping up with reality and not being artificial, referring in an intervention entitled “Semiotics of textual thresholds in the group” to the semantic thresholds starting with the title and cover and the intensification, simplicity and dialogue between form and content and a violation of negative customs and traditions. She also pointed out to the group’s deep and easy language that It is characterized by the technique of contradictions and interviews.
Ghanem considered that the writer possesses a density in language and beautiful coding, and his stories are characterized by a beautiful conclusion or lock, in addition to the techniques of return and foreseeing the future, and that his stories carry an important message and goal, and he is close to young people and can explore their depths, which made this group, in her opinion, herald the rise of satirical literature from its stability.
The storyteller, Dr. Mardini, after reading a story entitled Opening the Roof of Corruption, spoke about the decline in the presence of satirical literature in our country, even though the need for it is very great.
Mardini indicated that he is in the process of completing two new collections of short stories entitled Trapezoidal Stories and Soft Scissors, in which they seek to move away from narration and turn to the laughing part within the function of satirical literature in probing reality in general and focusing on the concerns of the citizen in a sarcastic way.
The seminar was moderated by the storyteller Samer Mansour, who opened the door to dialogue, in addition to poetry readings by Ibtisam Harb, Qassem Farhat, Salim Al-Mughrabi and Muhammad Jabr.
Bilal Ahmad
