Mockery exchange between a man and his past

Yemeni Mahmoud Yasin in his novel "Exchanging Mockery Between a Man and His Past" monitors the tension that afflicts a person at certain stages of his life, especially when he is swept by migration from one environment to another, and the impact of environments on him, so that it reflects the changes in his behavior, and the degree of disconnection from his reality or his past or his previous personality in the ongoing journey of change. Yasin places his hero "Al-Azzi" between two options, either to deal with the past as a lifeless corpse, or to migrate to it, stir it up, and dig through its rubble in an effort to understand the present, and to breathe life into continuity in parts, details, or incidents of that past in a way that serves the future. And this without giving him the chance to choose, pushing him to exchange mockery with time, and presenting it as an exciting strange game suitable for both adults and children, with no specific rules.