Blue sea, white moon

Author: Hassan Al-Bahar Number of pages: 151 pages Publisher: Arab House for Science Publishers "This journey (Blue Sea, White Moon) The dreamy, exciting journey that sails us from the world of reality to the world of imagination. And from the world of the sea to the world of literature. The author does not want to be a static intellectual in it, but rather to be constantly traveling, moving, and transforming, seeking in the mystery of this world to attain elevation. The journey may be exploratory, commercial, scientific, or for leisure; it can be realistic or infused with imagination. And the journey here, as much as it melts into multiple molds within its crucible, as much as it pierces the clarity of the genre by opening up to the textual phenomenon and sound techniques, it opens the traveling self, through its relation to the seas, to the reader’s horizon of expectation on the marvelous worlds of the sea. And the question that imposes itself before this choice remains: "Why did the traveling ego take refuge in the sea? And why travel?" The writing experience is nothing but an essential and intimate part of the life experience in its social and human dimensions. The Iraqi writer Hassan Al-Bahar drew this narrative connection from his novelist imagination, and undoubtedly that is one of the curiosities of this journey. The writer arranged for it profound events that organized the narrative line and dominated it with the structure of travel, where the content and artistic form interact within the framework of the event’s nucleus and its accompanying artistic forms, the travel nucleus, and its spiral course. This makes us describe its capacity as being as the modern critical lesson has concluded, calling the art of travel generally a "genre of genres." This is what the story reveals in this marvelous journey, considering it as a set of events or narrative acts that aspire toward an end aimed at a goal. It leads us to determine the importance of reading this text in its functional and semantic dimensions." Excerpt from a comparative critical analytical reading of "Blue Sea... White Moon," Prof. Tima Al-Alawi — Morocco