How I Took Up the Pen

Description

Hanna Mina is considered one of the most prominent Arab novelists who addressed issues of national existence, from the discourse of the self to dialogue with the other, in his nearly forty novels. His novel, *How I Took Up the Pen*, is one such work in which he openly expressed his creative output and autobiographical insights through a collection of essays and dialogues. In these pieces, he presented various intellectual, literary, and critical issues that contributed to enriching the flow of narrative discourse and its historical, autobiographical, and realistic interweaving.