Yahia Elhassan Eltahir

The Sonnet of the Labyrinth Yahia Elhassan Eltahir

Once a friend of mine wrote to me his reflections about this collection of short stories: I like to think that the contents of these stories is somewhat a sort of magical realism as whenever bizarre or possibly supernatural events are described in a straightforward/deadpan manner. It is revealing the magical in a mundane world, the characters, their communications, and interconnectedness is, beyond any stretch of imagination, is happening outside the physicality of life, inside the deepest realms of dreams. As it is a solid fact that is known to all literature critiques in Magic Realist literature, the most fantastic, crazy things are narrated in these stories in a very matter-of-fact way. Your mom turned into a moonlike smiling face? No biggie. Your wallpaper started talking to you? Happens every day. Little fairies came to dress you for school this morning? We've all been there, but the most astonishing contribution to this attitude in writing that Mr. Eltahir is adding is the fact that he is often draw inspiration and material from all kinds of myths-ancient myths, modern myths, religious myths and all sorts of other myths, For one thing, myths are a ready source of fantastic happenings; pretty much anything can and does happen in myths.