The manners we live with

About the book A society without manners, or a society that throws manners as a hidden sin to the limits of personal and social life, is a savage-spirited society, and it risks its freedom. Without manners, we would fight logic, and without music, realism would push us away, and the wings of emotion would be cut off. Literature 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. As the Peruvian writer and novelist Mario Vargas Llosa says, "Literature is the best thing invented to prevent misery." Literature, as we all know well, does not provide solutions but presents a puzzle. It is capable, in a novel or a particular story, of revealing endless complexities of a moral issue, and it gives us a sense 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 a moral question, or rather, when the reader is able to dig beneath the surface of the text, they can extract from its depths a moral question, even if this question is not explicitly posed by the author in many words. Through this alchemy, every literary text becomes somewhat metaphorical. Publication year 2022 Author: Salam Rahman Al-Tamimi Publisher: Jadal Publications Number of pages: 320