The girl and the cigarette

The girl and the cigarette is a sign of dystopian literature (the literature of the corrupt city) in the twenty-first century, but it is a satirical dystopia that lightly exposes the frantic world of ideals, dreams, and values until lightness becomes the counterpart of heaviness and the being becomes unbearable. A novel published in 2005, yet it reached a general and sometimes detailed prediction of what would happen in Syria, for example, in the early years of the second decade, as the writer depicts scenes of cinematic terrorists with their victims, recording a narrative and intuitive precedence of what the whole world would later see on television screens. A cigarette saves the life of a condemned man, who then emerges from the depths of prison to the arenas of glory and fame with the support of the tobacco industry lobbies, and a cigarette turns a life of an employee upside down, plunging him into the lowest depths. Between all this, the writer sends many messages: condemning social hypocrisy, as he dedicates slogans of "childhood care" instead of "totalitarian ideas." And calling for attention to a human model almost forgotten: the productive old man, whose shoulder flesh humanity feeds on, and who gains nothing but neglect.