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 sometimes predicted in a general and detailed manner 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 leaves the depths of prison to the arenas of glory and fame supported by tobacco industry lobbies, and a cigarette turns a life of an employee upside down, causing him to collapse to the lowest depths. Between these and those, the writer sends many messages: condemning social hypocrisy by dedicating slogans of "care for childhood" instead of "totalitarian ideas," and calling for attention to a human model that almost faded away: the productive old man, from whose shoulder humanity feeds and who gains nothing but neglect.