My beloved, mute

When we finish reading "My Mute Beloved," we do not bother ourselves too much with classifying this work as a novel or just reflections. In truth, the title can bear both meanings, as the narrator is writing a shared novel with himself, subtly infiltrating the reader's consciousness, guiding him to live a story of incomplete love, trembling words, and dancing meanings on its melodies—meanings of loss, written by a lover who wants to reveal his secret by his own will, telling the story of his love for a mute girl, who distanced herself after society rejected her. He says: "My sadness deepens every time I remember that our entire society stood against us, shouting 'It is not suitable for a healthy man to be with a deficient woman,' as if setting standards for love that we should not violate to earn their blessings... I am saddened that a woman like you, full of beauty and good qualities, does not have many opportunities to live as she wants and with whom she wants, and is forced to be for those like her... They have wronged us, my beloved, they kept us apart with a clause 'not suitable' or 'not fitting,' ignoring that together we can overcome the obstacle of voice, to be your voice and you be my silence...". In this work, (Al-Salem) employs the letter technique in most of his texts, where the story is crafted using the letter technique based on the dialectic of the speaker/addressee. The speaker is Hattan/the narrator, present directly in the text, and the addressee is Hanin, the mute girl, present indirectly through the narrator. This makes the text a long message, multi-part, addressed to a specific/absent person. The language of metaphor is present, along with delicate poetic images that enrich its aesthetic dimension, and the narrative is softened with the water of poetry. Just go everywhere, I found nothing every time I go to finish.