The old man who was reading romantic novels

Author's name: Louis Spolvidar Publisher: Dar Al-Adab for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 1993 Literary classification: Novel Book summary: Antonio Jose Bolivar Paredanio rose slowly and approached the dead animal, affected by the sight of the bullet, which tore it apart. His chest was nothing but a huge wound, and from his back came debris from his entrails and lungs. It was also larger than he had thought when he saw it for the first time. Despite its emaciation, it was a magnificent beast, a sign of beauty, and a wonder of magic that is impossible to replicate even in imagination. The old man wiped it, forgetting the pain of his wounded foot, and cried out of shame, feeling that he was despicable, contemptible, and in no way victorious in this battle. As tears and rain blurred his eyes, he pushed the animal's body to the riverbank, where the water carried it into the depths of the jungle toward lands that the white man had never dared to defile, toward the confluence of the river with the Amazon, toward the swift, roaring currents where stone knives would carve it, making it forever inaccessible to those who seek to harm it. Then he angrily threw the rifle and looked at it... without glory, a cursed metal beast among all creatures. "Antonio Bolivar" removed his teeth and wrapped them in a handkerchief without stopping, from the color of the white man responsible for the tragedy, the protector and producer of gold, and all those who desecrate the virginity of the "Amazonian," and cut a thick branch with a blow from his machete, leaning on it and heading toward "Al Eid Blair," toward his hut and his stories that speak of love with words so beautiful that they sometimes make him forget the barbarity of people. Despite that humorous tone created by the events with the old man who was reading romantic novels, at one moment, this old man was able to dedicate his final stance to translating the immense suffering endured by the indigenous people from the white man.