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Hanna Mina books and novels. Many of The Syrian Novelist Hanna Mina books and novels we will discuss in our article
Syrian novelist and writer.
He was born in the city of Latakia.
And he lived his childhood in one of the villages of Liwa al-Iskenderun on the Syrian coast
In 1939, he returned with his family to Latakia, and they loved and inspired him with its mountains and seas.
He struggled a lot at the beginning of his life and worked as a barber and porter in the port of Latakia
Then as a sailor on ships and boats
He worked in many other professions, including a bicycle repairman and a babysitter at the home of a rich master
Then a pharmacy worker comes to a journalist sometimes
Also, Then to the writer of a radio soap opera for the Syrian Radio in the vernacular language
Then a government employee,
Finally a novelist.
He repeatedly tried to send his literary works to the Syrian newspapers
In 1947, he settled in the capital, Damascus
He worked in the Damascus newspaper (Al-Insha’e) until he became its editor-in-chief.
His first novel, The Blue Lantern, was published in 1954
Then his literary works continued until it reached 30 novels other than short stories.
He entered the political party arena early as a boy of twelve years old
He fought against the French mandate
Then he abandoned the party affiliation in the mid-1960s
He devoted his life to literature.
He is the father of five children, including the actor Saad Mina.
Hanna Mina books and novels
Blue bulbs
The Blue Lantern is a novel that depicts the life of a group of simple people during the Second World War
And behind it the community in the city of Latakia, and Syria in general
And how, during the war, the lamps are painted blue to suggest the view of the lighthouses (gathering a lighthouse) in the distant part surrounded by fog.
We review this from the protagonist, Faris, and the development of his character from a child to an adult man.
The novelist has gone beyond the idea of ?” the impact of war on people,” to depict a whole life in which the crisis of war plays a large role
But the biggest role is for a group of people who are disturbed in the book’s folds, their daily lives, and how they treat each other
And how do they struggle to live
Also, And how do their private interests relate to the issues of their nation,
And how do they understand the struggle?
Although the novel begins and ends with a knight, he is not its only protagonist
In the big house lived a group of poor families
There is Umm Saqr, the old woman who serves at home, and her young unemployed son
And Maryam al-Sawda and her husband Nayef, nicknamed the stallion
The two are a story on their own.
The novel was presented in a Syrian TV series
The novel has been translated into Russian and Chinese.
Sail and Storm
Sail and Storm, the story of a Syrian coastal city during World War II.
In it, the author portrayed with astonishing ingenuity the impact of the war and the storms it left in a country occupied by the French
It depicts the most prominent contradictions that have been preying on a heterogeneous society
But first it is the story of the men of the sea, the story of victory over cruel nature, the story of human will and adventure.
In the Arabic novel, the sea is only mentioned and Hanna Minh is mentioned as if they were twins, but they are as well
They emerged from the womb of the Syrian coast, to crystallize together literature that is eternal in time
About the sea, Hanna Mina says
The sea has always been my inspiration, even when most of my work is soaked in the roaring wave waters
Meaty sea fish
My blood is salty water
My fight with sharks was a struggle of life
As for the storms, I have tattooed on my skin. I do not pretend to be chivalry, adventure, yes!
My grandparents are sailors, this is their profession, the son is learning his family’s craft, I worked at the port as a porter
I was also a sailor, and I saw death in the blue valley, and I did not give it to me, because death is a coward, because I was born with this salt water in my mouth.
Life is nothing but struggle on the sea and on land without interruption
Because that is a law of nature, the mother of us all.
Hanna Mina books and novels, Al-Yater
Tells about “Zakaria Al-Morsenli”
He is a fisherman from Latakia, who has the traits of a selfish and malicious personality
Also, He commits a murder and is forced to flee.
He lives somewhere on the Syrian-Turkish border. That place where there is only the sea, the plain, and the forest.
And there lives a lonely stranger running away in a tent he set up on the seashore, and fish has become his only food.
Until he encounters a shepherd from the neighboring Turkish countries,
So he thinks that this will be a link to the outside world, which gives her the fish to sell in her nearby village and bring it for money.
However, an unexpected event happened and he fell in love with her and she is
He is the one who has not known love before, and she is the one who left her husband and traveled to Anatolia for a long time, and there is no news of him.
The novel is a hadith of a wounded soul searching for love and security. From its pages comes the smell of the morning sea and a lot of blue.
A text that embraces philosophical and religious intersections between its sides “Marxism, Oedipus complex, the Qur’an”
And the overlapping of many voices.
Various references to create his own world.
A story ranging from events in the woods
Reminiscence in the city
So that the plot is open to two times:
1- A Time Physical “Life on the Beach in the Forest”,
- A psychological time related to the moment of the murder of the Greek innkeeper Zechariades, based in the back lines of the text on the Marxist vision.
The dream is in the consciousness of the writer, the victory of the proletariat and represented by the sailors.
Hanna Mina books and novels, white ebony
It is a collection of stories
Published in Syrian and Lebanese newspapers and magazines
It dates back to after 1969, with the exception of the two stories “Al-Nar” 1949, and “Jamrat Al-Sindian” 1956
And he collected them in a book.
The collection consists of ten stories:
- White ebony: a call to revolt against red tape, life’s engagements, and to live with recklessness.
- Writing on the bags:
Hanna depicts the difficult circumstances that marked his childhood
And how malnutrition made him a frail boy, unable to do hard physical work
And when he felt the need to help his financially destitute family, he went to the port
Since he discovered that he could not lift the bags, he felt distressed.
When there was a need to write simple data on the bags, the “teacher” chose him because he was proficient in writing.
He mentions in the story that when he met his “mentor” in Damascus, many years later
He was accompanied by a friend who knew both
That friend said to the teacher: Hanna is a well-known writer today
That simple man said: Yes, I know that. He started writing with me, on the sacks!
- The Tragedy of Dumitriu: A psychological dialogue of a young man who fell in love and tries to get rid of this love and the smile of his girlfriend
The Tragedy of Demeter (novel), which he later wrote as an independent novel.
- Recommendation card: the owner of the need Abd
The story of an unemployed person and how he is subjected to humiliation at the doors of ministers in order to find work.
- Message from my mom: A young girl sits at her grandmother to write a letter to her uncle
After the beating and insults from her grandmother and in a funny way, they begged her uncle not to appear in the newspapers and TV
And not to write letters to his mother
Because it all falls to her while responding.
- Tobacco Box: Journalist fleeing a coup in his country
He hides his personality from the community around him
He describes how those around him dealt with his unknown personality.
- Kateb: The story of a writer being led to the Palace of Justice to confront a judge for a minor charge
It reviews the conditions in the courts, types of cases, treatment, and detention until the case is called.
- Fire: When you insist on claiming your most basic rights only to improve the atmosphere of the work in which you work despite its inferiority
Someone tries to deny you your right to save for his employer.
- This is what remains of it: When you are a stranger and await the death of Aziz
Neither brother nor sister nor father is beside you
When you come across someone speaking your language and sharing your pain and weirdness
Find someone you complain about your concern and your pain.
- ember oaks: oaks do not extinguish and remain burning until they fade completely
This is how free men, no matter how old they are, remain like oaks.
Hanna Mina books and novels, A Sailor’s Tale
The story of (Saeed Hazoum) tells the story of the son of an adventurous sailor, Saleh Hazoum.
He represented the pinnacle of manhood and adventure
Not only with Said, but also with all those who have experienced the sea and knew its transformations.
The novel shows Saeed’s attempts to portray his father, who had mysteriously disappeared
And we see in the course of events the confusion and struggle that the hero faces in order to be himself an extension of his father’s life and heroics
Not just someone who lives in the shadow of his father’s well-known biography.
The End of a Brave Man
It tells the story of Moufid, who was raised by his father, who was a farmer
And he treated him violently with the aim of proper education,
However, this violence turned to the son
Mufeed, at the age of twelve, cut off the tail of a donkey, which angered the villagers
And his title became Mufid al-Wahsh.
For this, his father tied him with a rope to a tree trunk and beat him in front of the villagers
And this behavior reflected on the poor boy
He was forced to leave his family and neighbors and his village and did not return to it.
With the advent of the French occupation to his homeland (Syria)
The French imprisoned him for two years, after a quarrel with them
This incident left its mark on himself, so another man got out of prison
A man who understands the meaning of life
After leaving, he marries (Labiba) and works fishing in the port of Lattakia
Because of his physical strength and courage, its residents took a thousand accounts for him
In spite of everything the tendency of violence remained within him
He fought many troubles and quarrels
To come the day when he returns to prison for a period of five years
Then he got diabetes there
Doctors had to amputate his leg
Let another man come out, full of gloom, and only dream of having artificial legs to come back to life.
An old friend of him stood by his side in his ordeal, restored hope to him, and (Moufid) returned to work.
One day, he encountered an old enemy who was with him in the port, and they quarreled
This prompted the police to stop him and cut his dreams before they could come true
And here returned the violent and unconscious tendency when Moufid
He killed a man, and then committed suicide, after finding that his life had no meaning
Here we come to the conclusion of our article about the beautiful Hanna Mina books and novels.
