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From time to time, TMR reviews recent titles published in other languages, to give readers insight before they become available in English.<\/span><\/h5>\n

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A.J. Naddaff<\/h4>\n

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One of the most common features of tragedy is that the events that will unfold on stage are summarized by either the chorus or a messenger at the start, foretold by prophecies and oracles. Something similar happens in Racha Mounaged\u2019s La Blessure (<\/em>The Wound), <\/em>which starts roughly where it ends. It is as if an imaginary messenger \u2014 the omniscient narrator \u2014 has laid out the misfortune of Jad, the child protagonist: he is in a rehabilitation center for having stabbed a classmate with an oyster knife. His mother, the school\u2019s cleaning woman, finds out one morning during her shift when she is called to the principal\u2019s office. Then it backtracks. We know what is coming. Mounaged has set us up for the child\u2019s collapse. But we fall for it with heavy hearts. This is the sensibility of a great story, not dissimilar from the late Egyptian writer Nawal El Sadaadwi\u2019s Woman at Point Zero <\/em>and her murderous protagonist Firdaus, who tells her life story in prison before her execution.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mounaged’s novel La Blessure is published by \u00c9ditions Complicit\u00e9s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jad\u2019s life story is a chasm of tristesse. Set in wartime Lebanon, his suffering stems from the conflict of parental loyalty, or the inability to recover from the forced, mutually exclusive decision inflicted upon him by his parents\u2019 brutal divorce. To choose his mother, and in turn, resent his father. It is as if the only way to find peace is to eliminate his father. \u201cI am the owner of my thoughts\u2026 I want and will erase the image of dad.\u201d But the decision leaves him in a state of turmoil. Jad wets his bed; he has nightmares; he is anti-social. He is unmoored from a social network of peers his age that could encourage him. Having removed the enormous potential of paternal love from his life, he suffers identity problems. Memories of his father, his family, under the sun, on a merry-go-round, at Beirut\u2019s Rawda cafe, haunt him. The image of his father smiling, charming, floating in his mind, returns uninterrupted; at other times, we see a father reeking of sweat mixed with alcohol, a man full of false promises.<\/p>\n

Jad\u2019s perspective is told by an omniscient narrator, who interjects every so often to ask critical questions, for instance, \u201cWas it so unreasonable that Jad missed his father?\u201d There is a long tradition of novels told from child perspectives in modern French literature and Mounaged drew inspiration from Herv\u00e9 Bazin\u2019s Viper in the Fist<\/em>, Yann Queff\u00e9lec\u2019s The Wedding<\/em>, Agota Kristof\u2019s The Notebook<\/em> and Roman Gary\u2019s The Life Before Us. <\/em>Yet they are all bound in pulling the reader towards a shared innocence we all once possessed.<\/p>\n

Jad is a neutral name. In France, girls carry it, and in Lebanon, it\u2019s the opposite, perhaps a reflection of the novel\u2019s universal pull, an exclamation to not underestimate children\u2019s thoughts and feelings around the world. Jad\u2019s wisdom rings similar to Saint-Exup\u00e9ry’s legendary Little Prince, when the Little Prince says: \u201cGrown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is exhausting for children to have to provide explanations over and over again.\u201d Indeed, the grown ups in Jad\u2019s life fail to understand that their adult disputes, whether political, sectarian, familial, have sidelined children, the upcoming generation. The results are disastrous. I\u2019m reminded of the Lebanese novelist Rachid el Daif\u2019s autobiography \u0623\u0644\u0648\u0627\u062d or\u00a0Tiles<\/em>, which some critics have read as a critique of parenting and the sanctification of motherhood in Arab culture. There is a kind of honesty we are not used to here. As El Daif himself recently told me, \u201cThere are germs that are preventing us from building a modern state, and we inherited these germs from our mother and fathers.\u201d We were on a walk in the Koraytem neighborhood of Beirut and witnessed a teenager litter a Pepsi can and continue walking.<\/p>\n

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The Anguish of Being Lebanese: Interview with Author Racha Mounaged<\/a><\/h5>\n
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It is not only the parent dispute that disturbs Jad. He is traumatized from the war raging around him. At one point, Jad witnesses a car bomb shake the premises. Lifeless bodies spread across the ground with brownish blood drying on the asphalt. His uncle teaches him how to distinguish between \u201cthe tense roar of a M16 and a Kalshnikov.\u201d Interspersed in the horror are moments of rare joy. He dresses up in a skirt with a turquoise top and two large earrings at a surprise birthday for his mother while his favorite song by Ragheb Alama plays in the background. Hips and laughter and family envelop the scene. But war and family conflict are always present.<\/p>\n

Jad\u2019s mother is overwhelmed with events as a single mother paying bills, dealing with irksome lawyers for a divorce and raising two children. Jad\u2019s only bonds are with Abu Ali, an enormous bronzed fisherman whose scraggly beard and face are worn by salt, and his daughter Jana, whose beautiful green eyes radiate under the sun. Thanks to Abu Ali, Jad learns how to fish, but even this joy is ephemeral. Abu Ali is expelled from his cabin overlooking the gigantic Raouch\u00e9 rock on Beirut\u2019s corniche because he does not have a proper permit. Meanwhile, a giant hotel \u201cEl Magnifico\u201d is illegally constructed alongside the sea, reflecting the savage privatization that characterized the reconstruction farce of the post-civil war nineties \u2014 the hopefulness for the future that would all come crumbling down.<\/p>\n

Today, Lebanon is facing an enormous existential crisis as a result of its third exodus wave in the past century. The first was in the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century when mainly Christians fled from Mount Lebanon, then during the civil war (1975-1990) and now, in the wake of the Aug. 4 port explosion, renewed instances of sectarian violence and an economic meltdown that is one of the worst of the past 150 years<\/a>. Just as Jad in the novel, for so many today, education is the only way out. School is the intact space where Jad can restore his health, well-sheltered. But even there he is not truly protected. A bully named Youssef of wicked humor and who sports the nicest clothes throws paper airplanes at him, and even calls Jad\u2019s sister a whore. His only friend, Raphael, taciturnly observes as a passive bystander. All this can be ignored \u2014 temporarily \u2014 because of an international competition in Greece that Jad is determined to attend.<\/p>\n

To distract himself, Jad immerses himself in books on ancient Greek history, the Parthenon, the temple Acropole, and key dates. But the conflicts are stronger than his indomitable will to succeed \u2014 his competition is cancelled as a result of a resurgence in sectarian fighting that shakes the country, the straw that breaks the camel\u2019s back. The sensible and precocious Jad collapses into a raging fury and stabs his adversary Raphael, ironically with the weapon of the rich and privileged: an oyster knife. Unrecoverable class injustice married with the emotional trauma of his parent\u2019s divorce results in the wound that he inflicts across his enemy. There is a glimmer of joy, of some sorts, in the end, which I will not disclose, found in a look that accepts Jad in his totality. We can infer this from the impressionistic title image, a painting by the British artist Tom Young<\/a>, which features an adult who guides a child by hand out of the destruction and debris caused by the Beirut port explosion. \u201cI like the side which accepts reality without denying it, but which proposes a cure through art,\u201d the author said in a recenter interview<\/a>. With all the pain that this riveting story carries, perhaps Wounds<\/em> (plural) might have been a more apt title for this startling debut novel by Racha Mounaged.<\/p>\n

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