Iman al-Youssef mixes myth with reality in a novel

Sharjah – Ashraf Ibrahim

Iman Al-Youssef is a novelist and storyteller with an adventurous spirit, which makes her think about future literature. Her writings are full of questions and experiments, and she has managed to create a special approach for herself. Thinking about the taste and preferences of the readers towards a particular piece of literature and adapting it without fear or concern, this quickens his creative steps in the shadows of the arena. His literary work consists of about 6 works in novels and short stories. : “A Bird in a Fish Tank,” “Human Faces,” “Eggs of Eyes,” “Window,” “Guardian of the Sun,” and “Resurrection of Others.” He has also won awards. Some of his short stories, along with translations of some of his works, have also received theatrical treatment.Beginning with living languages, especially realistic literature, he moved to fantasy in search of new land and others. Faces appear in the stories of characters in a calculated manner, following a different flow of idea in its spirit by explaining it in the context of its expressive figures under the guise of mythology, superstition, superstition. and absurdity and contradictions that fantasy literature tolerates.

In his yet-to-be-published latest novel, “One Year of Solitude,” Al-Youssef captures unrepeatable scenes of the fate of one of the heroes of a popular novel that won the Nobel Prize and achieved untold sales. A calculated risk, she unleashes this hero and puts him in the heart of life, so that his heart beats with love. He lives in the most strange details in an unusual fantasy style, she chooses a difficult model in recreating the hero’s soul. Changing the course of her life, with a burst of creativity, she draws different rhythms in her fantasy world that reflects her desire to grow and experiment, her aesthetic style reveals contradictions that align with the story. Out-of-the-box ideas to refresh the reader’s memory with the heat of events, while at the same time they shade a core plastic sketch.

Having started his literary career in a short story tent, he could save many stories he wrote in different periods and find suitable time to include images, scenes and events with intimate content and publish them. Although he was more involved in writing novels in the past, he continues in his short story in a rhythm that mixes reality with myth to reflect his literary vision, in an intense narrative with the beauty of poetry and the fragrance of imagination. Her passion for short-story creativity has not dried up, so she records her thoughts and writes towards the future, where she spontaneously surrenders to the melodies of captivating storytelling and uses her ideas in the same fashion as she manipulates. … The novel is in antithesis.

Al-Yusuf believes that reading is the ink of the writer and one of the most important cultural projects in his life, so he is busy reading scholarly books and contemporary works of fiction, and tries to invest this interest in exploring the depth of historical writings. Knowing the interests of the nations, delving into the corridors of stories drawn from the source of imagination, until she hires them all… What she reads is a continuation of a thought-provoking literary project.