Don’t look at the eyes, a Belgian Spanish film that was inspired by one of Spain’s most renowned authors, Juan Jose Mias, and based on his novel “From the Shadow,” has begun screening in Spain as of today. It was directed by Felix Vezkari, who received much praise for calling the film a “cinematic masterpiece” in terms of both acting and photography.
The Arabic translation of the Spanish-language book “From the Shadow” by the Egyptian translator Ahmed Abdel Latif was released by the Mediterranean publishing. It was written by the Spanish author Juan Jose Mayas.
One of the most well-known authors who gave the Spanish novel a boost was Juan Jose Mias. He avoided the trap of writing directly about the civil war and was instead deeply immersed in reality by using his authentic worlds to create works of art that dealt with reality in a very different way, referring to this artificial barrier between reality and imagination as well as begging the human soul to reach its deepest levels.
In this novel, with a strange coincidence, the world turns into a few meters inhabited by the hero inside a wardrobe, and from this strange place he is watching a strange family. He creates his own universe from here and learns about the new outside world through listening.
Everything that is daily and usual is of the utmost importance in the novel “From the Shadow”, and all the small details that we may not give are importance to become representations of the great world, a carrier of complex and influential issues and events, from his place in the shadow, the hero raises his existential questions about concealment, and he goes through a mystical experience. like her
Through an original narrative method and a transparent language like water, it presents a bigger vision for the world from this constrained location.
It is noteworthy that Juan Jose Mias, one of the most well-known narrative voices in Spanish, is the author of “The Mind is the Shadows,” a novel that won the Sisamo Award in 1975, as well as several other works. His writings have also been translated into more than twenty different languages.
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From the shadow.
It was made into the film “From the Shadow.” Spanish people live in a wardrobe. Juan Jose Mayas
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