Poetry
كائنات مملكة الليل
Not translated into English
Ahmad Abd al-Muti Hijazi · 1978
Synopsis
A collection of poems published during the years when the author was living and teaching in France. According to Farzaneh Rahmanian, who devoted a study to it, the night becomes there the sign of silence and inwardness; exile, solitude and nostalgia for the native village are its dominant themes, along with nocturnal creatures, dreams and memories of a rural childhood.
Context
The collection appeared in Beirut, from Dar al-Adab, in 1978. Its author is counted among those who renewed contemporary Arabic poetry. Farzaneh Rahmanian attributes to the poet's stay in Europe a distancing from the daily events of his country, and makes night one of the major figures of his work: less a setting than an inner world, that of silence, dream and memory.
Who it is for
Poems in Arabic, in a writing turned inward; no translation of the collection, in French or in English.
Prizes and reception
A collection by a poet who won the Cavafy Prize, written during his years in France and published in Beirut.