Very short story as a new genre .. extension and recovery or creative setback?

Abdelghani Ballout-Marrakech

Since its inception, the "very short story" - which has flourished in Morocco and the Levant and characterized by its short size and concise and concise tendency - has tended to be unique, possessing technical characteristics that maintained its structure, form, language and narrative format.

The “very short story” combines linguistic economics, semantic condensation, suggestive power, dramatic tension and a plot producing a holistic effect. “This literary genre is based on the three philosophies of intentionally concise, focused and metaphorical, which form its overall artistic framework,” he explains. Moroccan critic and academic Mimoun Maslak for Al Jazeera Net.

Moroccan critic and researcher Jamil Hamdaoui points out that the very short story "occurs to the reader that confusing surprise and blatant surprise and loud, with the use of a flash image and paradox and accelerate the rhythm."

With the rapid rhythm of life, the reader finds in that brevity and surprise a pleasure and pleasure, which is like the prestige performed by the fingers and breaths with a series of instruments combined with delicacy of sensation and harmony of rhythm and creative vision, says the Moroccan storyteller Abdellatif Nellah.

But as production has accumulated in relation to its shorter size compared to other races and cyber openness, the debate among creators and critics has intensified over the usefulness of quantum in the absence of clear visions that frame the course of this genre to further exclusivity and creativity.

Setback or recovery?
The Moroccan storyteller Abdel Latif Nileh in an interview with Al Jazeera Net that the very short story has witnessed a remarkable quantitative accumulation despite the recent age, but this did not carry mostly creative value and add quality.

He likens it to the "donkey narrative," which both horse and bear in the absence of cohabitation and good representation of the texts of creative storytellers at the global level, and in the absence of theoretical and aesthetic awareness of the elements of this genus.

The researcher highlighted the behavior of Maimon that this setback, as he put it, mainly due to lack of access to research and ease of electronic publishing and the absence of objective criticism, with the spread of criticism of nepotism and compliments, highlighting that all this contributed to stifling real creativity.

In contrast to the Moroccan academic Jamil Hamdaoui - in a statement to Al Jazeera Net - that the short story is going through a crisis and a depression or setback creative, artistic and aesthetic, but despite some of its impurities known to the rest of the literary races, it is living a period of glowing prosperity and the moment of bright recovery with quantitative accumulation And qualitative.

The Iraqi storyteller Abbas Ajaj tells Al Jazeera Net that theories of modernity and postmodernism broke the traditional frameworks of writing, and opened the way for the overlap of races, and that the departure from stereotypical standards helped to differentiate the written forms.

Oud leveling
Is it natural that every genre stumbled in its early beginnings, and its creators wait for more patience, follow-up and trimming until it returns to its artistic and aesthetic features, as has happened to other genres such as prose poem in the Arab world?

Jamil al-Hamdaoui, president of the Arab Association for Short Story, says that this genre has not yet been developed.It is a difficult art that needs an efficient creator and an experienced writer with excellence.In addition, the lack of experience among its creators causes problems in complexity, theorizing, evaluation and guidance.

The creators and critics are still different on the elements and conditions alike, and hesitant about its essential fixed elements and secondary technical elements, adds Hamdaoui.

Extension and turnout
The whole world has become a small village thanks to new media and the Arab world has benefited from this supernatural technology, and the information and news do not travel but lightning, and for this very short story spread the spread of wildfire.

The academic stresses that what he found an art attracted all this different conformation as he found in the very short story, a healthy phenomenon provided good knowledge of the elements of this art and avoid the process of projection, because each art has its own tools that are not only by and by them, but what happened that mediocrity Spread as active virus and spread significantly.

According to the member of the Arab League for Literature and Culture Abbas Ahaj, the increase in orientation and appetite for dealing with criticism, theorizing and issuance at the level of writers and critics, and at the academic and graduate level, as well as the multiplicity of forums and festivals in all Arab countries, evidence of their health.

Hamdaoui stresses that he is absolutely convinced of this new literary art, and considers it an indispensable gain and that it is a secret of the complex modern life which is characterized by tremendous speed and competitive material and moral character in order to achieve the human being materially and morally and prove by all means to do so.

Escape and return
Critics and creators coincide with the reality of diarrhea in the "very short story", which led Qassasin to migrate to other literary genres, so the Moroccan storyteller Hassan Qari notes that this genre began to lose part of its luster and enthusiasm, which was sweeping a number of its creators, and some of them even moved away from it And went to try his luck in others.

"It may be due to the glut and haste in the publication of texts, even if they did not reach the maturity and depth imposed in this quarrelsome genre, and it may be due to the satisfaction with which no longer feel the pleasure of writing or feeling that it has exhausted its task."

On the other hand, researcher Al-Hamdaoui emphasizes that survival and great interest will undoubtedly be for this new genre, as evidenced by the fact that many Arab novelists and short story writers have begun to abandon their previous writings that they are accustomed to, and have begun to experiment with it and adapt to it with creativity, writing and imagination.

It confirms that the very short story will be the best literary races in the future because our age is characterized by speed, acceleration and accelerated rhythm, and therefore does not allow the Arab reader to read texts submitted in quantity and quality, and this does not mean that the other literary races will disappear and become extinct permanently, but will remain alive next to the story Too short.