Damascus-SANA
The novelist Samar Al-Kallas finds that the nostalgia for travel dawned her latent energy and incited her to creativity.
The novelist Al-Kallas indicated that during her exile, and due to the nature of her father’s work in continuous travel, she developed a passion for the Arabic language and writing poetry. When her exile ended and she returned home with the outbreak of the terrorist war, her old passion turned into a love of writing, so she wrote about travel literature and exile in magazines, newspapers and cultural platforms.
Her first novel work, issued by the Syrian General Book Authority, entitled (The Road Is Broken), came as a pain that took four years to write, and she dealt with it as a chemical equation in a scientific laboratory as a result of her being affected by her work and study, considering that the creative product must be brewed by the writer and that he possesses his tools and has all his equations.
Through her novel, Al-Kallas sought to mix reality with fiction, as it embodied her nostalgia for some of the places she visited and lived in for years of her life, and monitored the traditions and customs of its inhabitants.
She points out that the main objective of her novel is to shed light on the cosmic conspiracy against our country and draw attention to the Palestinian cause, refugees and their suffering as a result of displacement and occupation.
The novelist, as Al-Kallas sees it, must present his message to the readers through the novelistic event, not in the form of a sermon to clarify his point of view that may be absent from others, noting that reading the event varies with the multiplicity of people, cultures and intellectual heritage.
And about the clear presence of poetic language in her novel, Al-Kallas considers that her nature as a romantic woman, the lifestyle she lived and her desire to become a poet made her employ the narrative between the real and the poetic according to the needs of the novelistic work.
Al-Kallas finds that the Syrian novel accompanied the war against us and embodied the pain and hopes of the Syrians, but she believes that some of these works failed to achieve this goal in containing and absorbing this pain.
And because this war is not over yet, the class finds that we have not yet developed a literature that can be described as the literature of war.
Al-Kallas believes that the Syrian novel has its position today as it was in the last century, but the circumstances are different due to the decline of the paper book and the lack of people's dependence on reading in the first place in the crowded means of communication and advanced knowledge.
Bilal Ahmad