In the stories of this collection, Hassan Balsam mainly deals with the conditions of Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein and gives a picture of the people of this land, whether those who stayed in the country and were captured by foreign attacks, e ...
In the stories of this collection, Hassan Balsam mainly deals with the conditions of Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein and gives a picture of the people of this land, whether those who stayed in the country and were captured by foreign attacks, ethnic and religious conflicts, and daily killings, or those who wanted or Unwittingly, they took the path of sojourn and even there they could not get rid of the nightmares in the corner of their minds. People like the character of Salim Abdul Hossein in the story "Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes", who changed his name to Carlos Fuentes after going to the Netherlands. The Iraq that Hassan Blasem depicts in his stories is black and full of death, killing and violence. Blossom is careful not to let the audience forget even for a moment that Iraq today is engulfed in violence and the killings and scars of wars, war after war, destruction after destruction. The characters of Hassan Blasem's stories are condemned to suffer poverty, the atmosphere of the stories is suffocating. In many of his stories, even though the atmosphere seems calm and this one is supposed to have a calmer ending, disaster strikes. The disaster that is always lurking in the lives of Iraqis and collapses on them in the blink of an eye. In a TV interview, when the interviewer said that his stories are a bitter account of "magical realism", Hassan Blasem answered that this is the most accurate description of his fictional world and said: "My stories are not magical realism. Realism is a nightmare and horrible illusions. "Realism is acid, it suddenly burns and wounds."
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