Press House Holds a Cultural Meeting entitled "Critical Reading of the Next grave Digger”

The Press House Cultural Club held a cultural and critical meeting for the story collection of the Next Grave Digger of the writer Amer Al-Masri, as part of a project ”Towards an Independent Media Platform for Capacity building, Awareness, and Involvement of Journalists”, in the presence of a number of writers, poets and critics.

The poet Mona Al-Musadar took over the management of the cultural meeting, where she asked the writer Amer Al-Masri questions and provided observations about the events of the story collection and the temporal and spatial elements and their relevance to the events.

In turn, the critic Kamel Wafi began to make a critical observation of the story collection by saying that the language was good and very copmat and full of similes and metaphors, which gave the story a kind of fantasy.

While the critic focused on the repetition of some phrases in the story significantly, pointing out that the stories were dominated by excessive subjective ego or conscience speak with the diversity of time and the ability to embody the place in a remarkable way, especially the "Grave", which strengthened the Fantasia element strongly.

As for the characters, Wafi explained that they were of the kind of quicksilver that attends in the narration and then stay absent in the rest of the lines and then evoked once again when the writer wishes, while the characters were consistent with the idea of ​​the writer who excelled in their presentation and employment.

some writers and poets commented on the story collection of Al-Masri by pointing out some critical points where the writer Yousri Al- Ghoul made an intervention in which he commented on the slang that dominated the stories where he asked the writer to focus on whether the work is global or local work, while the poet Mahmoud Gouda criticized the need to the writer to separate between his personality and the work text.