Their libraries | Mohamed Ait Hana

To read means to know how to deal with emptiness, we do not read to be filled, nor even to empty ourselves, but to manage the dialectical relationship between emptiness and fullness within us. Therefore, a clever reader must start by managing the emptiness of their library, as the library is the external reflection of our minds. A library full of books is a dead library, and a library with no books is a library that has not yet been born. Between them is the living library, which oscillates between death and the possibility of returning to before life! Perhaps the most important thing in this work is its grandmother, because although the subject of the library has become one of the most discussed topics in contemporary writings, its author has taken a path whose steps are not yet clearly defined. Especially among Arabic language writers, the relationship between the creator and the library has not received much serious thought. This work has gone far in questioning this relationship. And it is a relationship that does not always fall within positive feelings, such as appreciation and love, but may go beyond that to more ambiguous relationships that may reach the level of repulsion and hatred. In this work, writers, filmmakers, painters, and physicists coexist simultaneously, a coexistence rarely seen in other works concerned with thought or literature.