E’ ancora una volta una recensione particolare, sui generis, quella che si trova sul blog di Youssef Rakha, l’arabophile. E ancora una volta worth reading per gettare uno sguardo sulla nuova letteratura egiziana. Parla di Al-Alfain wa Sittah: Qissat Al-Harb Al-Kabira (Two Thousand and Six: The Story of the Big War, Cairo: Merit, 2009), di Nael El-Toukhy. Rakha parla soprattutto di Halss, tradotto come “the quaint but all too appropriate term for Irreverent Nonsense, Hilarious Noise, Creative Nihilism”.
E si conclude così:
Humorous writing which has in these recent, commercialised years made the best-seller list as often as anything else may have been a step on the way to the true liberation of the Jokers that Halssism proposes, their prevalence and their ultimate, scientifically ordained triumph. But it is not the same as Halss in that it holds onto various aspects of the real and the moral the presence of which will hamper and potentially kill the transformation now besetting our world. Revolution is indeed afoot, in order once and for all to bring down Revolution.
JOKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!