Delirium balcony

In a unique style, veiled sarcasm, and brief expressions of multiple images of life, and with rare boldness in breaking the established, yet traditional, modern novelistic form. And with expressive images like flashes that come and then disappear, with unique rituals that are out of the ordinary in their intensity and studied form, the poet Ibrahim Nasrallah in this novel dialogues with the bitter state of alienation that has come to occupy a vast space in the Arab soul since the first Gulf War, passing through the harsh shadows of what the Palestinian situation has become, arriving at the post-September 11 stage and the occupation of Iraq. They are balconies from which our writer looks out on the reality of the situation experienced by the hero of the novel, “Rashid Al-Nimr” and his family. They are stations that represent images of the life of the Arab person searching for his identity, freedom and security, but he does not find it. An era full of conflicts, wars and poverty to the point that he looks in the mirror and finds another image of himself. The hero of the novel says: “I want to contemplate myself in a mirror that does not reflect my image!! Isn’t this difficult, and what is the difficulty in that? This means that you will be where you were, without eyelids, and with dreams that remind you of the day, and without a road, and above all, alone, with this blind mirror!! His dead friend asked him: Why do you accompany me?! Because I cannot see myself in you! And why do you not see yourself in me?! Because you have no eyes! You get my point, don’t you? “The Balcony of Delirium” is a new form in modern novel literature through which “Ibrahim Nasrallah” broke the concept of building character with impersonality, and broke art with art so that there would be space in this (absurdity The epic) in which we live, through which we can dialogue with a new reality that can no longer be dialogued with except by going to the extreme border area.