Recently published: Contemporary Arabic Fiction: The Boundaries of Creativity and Imagination by the Moroccan critic Aziz Arabawi.
Recently published: Contemporary Arabic Fiction: The Boundaries of Creativity and Imagination by the Moroccan critic Aziz Arabawi. The book examines a number of contemporary Arabic novels, including The Forgotten Between Two Waters.
My sincere gratitude and appreciation to critic Arabawi for his thoughtful engagement with the novel and for approaching it from a distinct and insightful perspective.
The Significance and Perception of Place in The Forgotten Between Two Waters
Novelist Laila Almotawa writes from within an existential unease concerning the self and the other. Her narrative voice is devoted to human anxieties, sorrows, and the hidden recesses of the soul. Through a vivid and deeply personal memory, she expresses these burdens and griefs, shaped by betrayal, injustice, and the fractures inflicted upon human experience. In the end, the authority of imagination prevails over the written word, asserting itself over the language of the novel itself. What emerges is a profound relationship between the writing self and the world it creates, populated by characters who endure existential anguish infused with fear, death, and fragmentation.
In The Forgotten Between Two Waters, Laila Almotawa reveals a deeply humanistic and existential vision, weaving together the world and humanity through a shared ethical and social consciousness rooted in her understanding of the human condition and her perception of existence itself. The novel seeks to contemplate lived reality — even through the lens of imagination — in a call for transformation and renewal in both thought and life. It offers perspectives and visions that distinguish it from many other contemporary Arabic novels.
Within this work, spatial intensity becomes strikingly present, while the sphere of events expands to encompass the strange, the wondrous, and the mythical, reflecting the author’s creative choices and her aesthetic conception of the art of the novel
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