In this story by Zakaria Tamer, there is a flashback, a return to childhood, perhaps in accordance with Bernard Shaw’s definition: “Genius is the deliberate recovery of childhood.” Thus, from the beginning, we find ourselves confronted by an astonishing clarity of space and the awareness of a child trying to discover the alphabet of life. Here, there is the house, the garden, the tree, the wall, the people, the jinn, the sleep of the dead, and the mischief in the wafting of memories, an ancient bliss.
In this story by Zakaria Tamer, there is a flashback, a return to childhood, perhaps in accordance with Bernard Shaw’s definition: “Genius is the deliberate recovery of childhood.” Thus, from the beginning, we find ourselves confronted by an astonishing clarity of space and the awareness of a child trying to discover the alphabet of life. Here, there is the house, the garden, the tree, the wall, the people, the jinn, the sleep of the dead, and the mischief in the wafting of memories, an ancient bliss.
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