Al-Aqrash's Memoirs

He is searching for a fundamental axis which is love. Al-Aqrash falls in love even to madness, and he is a young Argentine educated man of Lebanese origin, with a girl of extraordinary beauty. However, the lovestruck Al-Aqrash does not take long to discover in love those two opposing eternal poles that wrestle within the human soul, so he finds himself crucified between them; we love so we soar, and we dry out our spirits until we almost touch the throne of God. We desire so we become condensed bodies, and we condense until our depravity reaches the level of animals. Al-Aqrash kills his virgin bride on their wedding night, and as a result of the shock, he loses his memory, and he only knows that he is a speechless servant in a Syrian restaurant in New York, writing his memoirs in a wooden box behind the kitchen where he used to take refuge every night. He takes his bliss from Al-Aqrash as a mask behind which he expresses himself, and in the form of memoirs, summaries of what was stirring within him from experiences, while he is still in the prime of his youth in New York City (1916-1932). As for the key to all the memoirs, despite their multiplicity and differing topics, it was a note he left near the bed of his sacrificed beloved, on which it says: "I killed my love with my own hands because it is beyond what my body can bear and less than what my soul longs for."