About: Beirut Nightmares

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Beirut Nightmares (1976) is a novel written by Syrian author Ghada al-Samman. It was translated to several languages including Russian (1987) and Bolonian (1984). The novel covers cultural, societal, political, religious aspects, and psychological aspects, in addition to fantasy and magical realism through the hallucinations she had, involving symbolism as a way to explain these aspects. Pauline Vinson explains that Samman’s usage of symbolism is not only tied up to socio-political and historical conditions, but is also let into the world of fantasy and the surreal, a style close to magic realism.

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