After being banned for 4 years, "The Taste of the Wolf" wins the State of Kuwait Prize for the novel

Kuwaiti activists celebrated the winning of the novel "Taste of the Wolf" by Kuwaiti poet and novelist Abdullah Al-Busais, the State of Kuwait's Encouragement Prize for the novel, after it was banned for 4 years.

Tweeters considered that the 222-page novel, published by the Arab Cultural Center in 2016, is "one of the most important narrative works in Kuwaiti literature, and deserves this celebration and more."

The events of the novel - according to what the writer Al-Busais explained in a previous interview with the Kuwaiti Al-Jarida website - revolves around life, the human being, and the influence of his society on him, explaining that society participated in the formation of the character, and “there are restrictions that we did not choose, but society imposed them by force on us. He who puts restrictions on himself. "

After banning the social and philosophical narrative, Al-Busais described this decision as "arbitrary," asking: "Why are various issues banned from circulation in Kuwait while they are sold in most of the Gulf countries?"

Tweeters expressed their happiness at what this novel had reached after it was banned, and the writer Abd al-Rahman Hamad said, "Every high status and every high value attached to you, Abdullah ... a poet and writer, writes with a special and distinguished soul. You deserve more, my friend."

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- Abdullah Al-Busais (@ Alb9ai9) February 2, 2021

Theban trip

The novel narrates the journey of a fugitive Bedouin poet fleeing his people to try to find meaning for his life in a society in which the 17th century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes said, "Man is a wolf for his brother man", before he is lost in the desert jungles, to be surprised by a hungry wolf in the harsh desert that imprints man and animals with its character on Both.

Critics praised the distinctive narrative style and the Bedouin vocabulary and poetic verses that narrate the story of "humanization of the wolf," who becomes a friend of man in a novel that compares animal tenderness with human aggression

As the wolf appears and faithful its oath, unlike the man who breaks his covenant.

In one of the passages of the novel he says, "The ferocity of prey is not fierce, Dhiban.

We congratulate the creative novelist

Abdullah Al Busais

for his novel (The Taste of the Wolf)

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- Kalimat Library (@dar_kalemat) February 2, 2021

In another passage he says, "You have a trait of dogs; that is that she blames herself if she makes a mistake, and she blames herself until she is satisfied with the humiliation .. We are the wolves in order to be wolves. We must first not regret any mistake we committed, and not regret a slip that occurred from us. Not be dissuaded. "

The writer uses animal and human symbolism throughout the novel, which he includes in a philosophical spirit that begins with the first part of a fast pace, and rushes in the second, before it goes oddly into the final part, where "I broke the boundaries called the reasonable ... Now we have to find other intelligibles that arrange chaos. Popped up in his mind. "

Desert Fantasy

The novel paints a picture of the desert community, and deals with issues of shame, alienation, madness, self-agony, fear of the unknown, and avoiding confrontation in a world without heroes whose characters live a life of wandering, cruelty and grievous anxiety, where wolves are human and not animal with fangs that are implanted in the lives of the weak, the outcasts, those fleeing blood, revenge and the unknown in the face of cruelty Both humans and nature.

In the first chapter, the novel deals with the hero’s struggle with his society, while his struggle with nature and the self is addressed in the second chapter, and in the third chapter the conflict with the hero’s imagination and mind takes place in a pattern of gradual suspense and non-vulgar excitement that asks: What made popular culture distort the image of the wolf while She is dressed with the negative qualities of "wolves", and the narrator says in the novel, "In isolation from humans there is complete and eternal comfort from everything that could disturb life. Only human beings must be wary of them more than he is cautious about the desert."

The real is mixed with fantasy in the novel, in which many painful events take place that push the hero to leave the fever of his people and resort to the desert full of surprises as well.

When the novel is greater than the award, we do not say “arrive late ..” because the donor is forced - at that time - to follow the text.

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- Abrar (@Abroo_fai) February 2, 2021

In the desert, where spatial elements are vast, the writer fills his story with the symbols of tribal life and their societies, and tells about what he calls the ferocity of the prey in exchange for the ferocity of feeling and the humanity of wolves versus the human "wolf", all in a simple geographical area full of sand dunes, dry vegetation and arid lands, except for Popular myths and broad meditations with loose phrases, poetic quotes, and wild imagination.