The Lover – Ghassan Kanafani | Novel

These novels, incomplete, were only published after the martyrdom of Ghassan Kanafani, and when they were first published in the magazine "Palestinian Affairs," they had the impact of a surprise. Why did he not complete his novels? At least "The Blind and the Deaf," which represents a qualitative leap in Kanafani's literature and in Palestinian literature. The first novel was titled "The Lover," and through it, we can understand the degree of similarity and connection between the author and his main character, so the lover becomes Ghassan Kanafani, and in it, the author depicts images of the struggle fabric embodied by Palestinian fighters. As for the second novel, titled "The Blind and the Deaf," Kanafani recalls his symbols, placing them within a stunning linguistic-poetic structure. The dialogue between the blind and the deaf, and their joint search for the wali, are indicators full of echoes, and when they meet at the shrine, they discover: "That it is a mushroom, just a mushroom," then I realized he cannot hear, I shouted loudly that "it is a mushroom." This is how the blind screams. The deaf's response is even more so: "They also call it a burst, and then he was silent." "I will keep laughing at myself all my life whenever I remember that I came to ask for a bursting seed with ears to hear with." If this novel had been completed, it might be the most important thing Kanafani ever wrote. But, remaining incomplete, it is a rare literary testimony. As for the third novel, morally titled "April Plum," Kanafani recalls the atmosphere of "Return to Haifa," but he flips the equation, so Abu Al-Qasim, who denies the corpse of his martyr son, is the other face of Saeed S. Three incomplete novels, presenting in their incompleteness the grand symbolic image that Kanafani could not write on paper. The image of the writer, who, due to his intense attachment to his heroes, becomes the main hero in novels he did not write, and the image of the novel, which chooses a fate similar to that of its heroes.