The literature we live by, authored by Salam Rahman Al-Tamimi

A society without manners, or a society that throws manners as a hidden sin to the borders of personal and social life, is a savage society, indeed it risks its freedom, without manners we would kill logic, and without music we would bury realism, and the wings of emotion would be cut off, manners is a place built by writers and readers; it is a somewhat fragile place, but it is resistant to destruction, when it cracks we repair it because we need shelter. And as the Peruvian writer and novelist Mario Vargas Llosa says, "Literature is the best thing invented to prevent misery." Literature, as all of us know well, does not offer solutions, but presents a puzzle and is capable, in a certain novel or story, of revealing endless complexities of an ethical issue, and it gives us a feeling of gaining a certain level of understanding through which we better comprehend the world. I am tempted to say that every book that engages the reader raises an ethical question or rather, when the reader is able to dig beneath the surface of the text, they can extract from its depths an ethical question, even if this question was not explicitly posed by the author in many words. Through this alchemy, every literary text becomes somewhat metaphorical. Number of pages: 320