al-Rawiyat de Maha Hasan: métamorphose et réincarnation comme dernière tentative pour préserver la vie

Al-Rawiyat (The Storytellers) is a metafictional novel written by Syrian author Maha Hasan in 2014. The text contains two intertwined levels: the first is the inner monologue of a woman who is writing a novel; the second is represented by the stories of the characters she creates and that become themselves storytellers. In this text Maha Hasan explores the art of storytelling through multiple stories and many female characters. Ḥasan’s storytellers often live in parallel and imaginary worlds, in a permanent state of metamorphosis and perpetual reincarnation. The stories they live and narrate represent their last attempt to preserve life in an inhuman time that changes at a spasmodic rhythm and generates simultaneous events with contradictory effects. This novel translates into fiction the rapid changes of the present period, which—as affirmed by Rosi Braidotti in her Metamorphoses—does not truncate the brutality of power relations, but at deeper view, intensifies them to their point of implosion.