Windows for confession and longing

Author's name: Mahmoud Shaqir Publisher: Tabaq Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2023 Literary classification: Short story collection Brief about the book: An enjoyable and captivating storybook, which can be considered a meta-narrative that starts from the characters of the fictional trilogy that Mahmoud Shaqir completed years ago, and from the atmosphere of some satirical stories with a global orientation that appeared in some of his collections since the mid-1990s. The author begins with a set of imaginary and realistic characters and situations touched by the trilogy, in a form of (metanarrative) that allows writing to reflect on itself, review its facts and methods, and question within its narrative fabric its fluctuating relationship between the implicit author and the real author. During this, it hints at the possibility of including some chapters of autobiography, after being subjected to modifications and transformations permitted by the writer's imaginative nature, far from the boundaries of explicit autobiography. It approaches what is called “autobiographical fiction” without explicitly declaring its affiliation, heralding new images of the complexity of the relationship between reality and imagination, and between the true autobiography and the invented narrative writing.