Between the novel and the novelist lies a world overflowing with burning questions, deserving of nothing more than the enduring power of the act of writing and its adventurous human magic, born of the utmost talent. Here, talent becomes the question, the answer, and the catalyst for future questions and answers, intertwined with all the values \u200b\u200bwe believe in, the necessities we hide behind, and the legitimacy of the supposed absence of our supposed being that we grant our existence under its constant weight.<\/p>\n
In this novel, then, Buthaina Al-Essa engages with the entire world through a language so exquisitely delicate that it becomes a song distributed within a musical structure that gradually accumulates between the main text and the margins, overflowing with sweetness, awe, and tears. Yet, it is also harsh, to the point of a pain that has resided in the folds of the soul since time immemorial\u2014a pain that Buthaina must have lived through in its minute details before it became a shared history among the women of the earth and a secret identity for its men.<\/p>\n
Here, then, is a radiant woman discovering her beginnings, etched on the margins of the universe’s sap in all its manifestations. A novelist steeped in her craft, despite not yet having reached the age of twenty-two (I don’t know exactly what the supposed relationship is between the magnitude of talent and the age of the gifted!). With this experience, she attempts to reshape the entire world according to the new relationships she has forged between beings, within the meaning and history of writing itself. She succeeds greatly in this task because she excels at discovering life through her self-discovery, a self-discovery that is driven by the utmost passion of a novelist, possessed by a bookish skin confident in the details of its trajectory and becoming, and by inherited feminine wiles, all in the pursuit of an end that remains eternally in wonder and all that it leads to.<\/p>\n
“Frenzy” is a novel that refuses to be completed, for it is an open text, rife with questions that revolve in a space of profound existential anxiety, both in its bleakness and its exposure of everything we try to hide beneath the rubble of our psychological human heritage.<\/p>\n
Although “Frenzy” is the author’s second novel, following her equally beautiful and astonishing debut, “A Collision… Without a Sound,” I, having been in contact with her as she wrote them one after the other, and having read them in manuscript form, believe that in “Frenzy” she poses her first novelistic question with acquired wisdom and innate intelligence. Her talent shines brightly through events that unfold in an atmosphere devoid of conventional narrative, all recorded with linguistic sophistication despite the dark humor rarely employed by female novelists in contemporary Arabic literature. This adds to the pleasure of reading and the enjoyment of following the narrative.<\/p>\n
This is not an introduction, but rather a reference to this successful novel and this exceptionally successful novelist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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