Sharjah: Ashraf Ibrahim
There is isolation that may lure writers and creators into hiding places far from what they are accustomed to in the styles of the writer, placing barriers between them and ink and paper, making them sometimes feel useless, or that the water of creativity is stagnant and joyless, or makes them feel that breaking with writing may draw new dreams for them, and send them a spirit. It is different, and that the condition of return depends on an unconventional idea, but in any case, does the senses of the fingers fail when surrendering to isolation, and the soul becomes devoid of thought or imagination, or is it an opportunity to open the box of surprises again and then return with the utmost creativity?
What kind of train is this that carries writers and speeds them back from their experiences that established their existence in the cultural scene, and what life is that that makes them surrender to abhorrent isolation within them, that prevents them from flying in the kingdom of letters and ideas, so what is this isolation that does not mediate? Which may give some of them peace, and may constitute for others times when life burns without an answer or explanation for these impossible periods that pass them by, and they are fed up with what they loved, traced its tracks, and followed its seasons, so when does the writer enter the tent of his isolation? As it is certain that every creator has his reasons that make him unburdened by the breezes of writing, and unable to approach what the drawers carry of papers and words.
In this survey, some writers, writers, and owners of various creative arts tell about the defining moment that prepares them for unexpected isolation, in which they may become immune to the world, as Paul Auster says, or the march may stop with it, and the lights and windows of imagination are extinguished, and they are freed from the insomnia of asking about tomorrow. An unknown heralds or not heralds their return to their usual creations.
Retreat and contemplate
Isolation from the perspective of the storyteller Ibrahim Mubarak may result in great unimaginable things in the reality of writers who may fall into its traps by force. Surprisingly for every creator, from his point of view it is useful, and it deserves to be a haven from time to time, especially since the writer’s distance from the hustle and bustle of life puts a distance between what is useless and a thinking mind like the writer who needs isolation in order to write a different idea, and although Mubarak practices the art of isolation on himself in intermittent periods of time, because he does not like it to be a rupture and separation, and a deliberate abandonment of the writer and a denial of his history and creativity, especially since he was known in cultural life, poets and writers who lived a long isolation, which extended for more than 10 years, but the beauty of it In the end, they returned with creativity that inspires contemplation, as it is with isolation; it would have restored the writer as it was; To internalize his conditions in creativity, and look at knowledge from another angle.
The smell of the leaves
The novelist Moza Awad sometimes needs moments in which she moves away from words and the scent of leaves, so she searches in herself for new wisdom, or searches in her mind for a vision in order to contemplate her creative reality again, and she praises isolation sometimes, because it may drown her in grief and make her sit among self-clouding storms. Half a year, and she is unable to pick up a book from one of the library shelves, and when she is in this state, she has a desire for literary isolation to be comprehensive, so she moves away from cultural participation so that there is no common life in this framework. She cannot bear to be far from the narrative she is familiar with, and at the same time to be close to the circle of literary dialogues in the creative clubs with intellectual activities on the open page of life in order to receive the book.
And she sees that the specter of isolation hangs over some writers; It prevents them from the light of writing and its metaphors, so it locks them in a box far from the responsibilities of writing and its editorial burdens, and that some of them may return to life again with more momentum and freedom in choosing another path for another writing that is not measured by what was written before.
Another weirdness
For the formation of Dr. Muhammad Youssef, who has intellectual contributions and put it in books related to this art, he retired from his arts that followed the paths of creativity for about 9 years, during which another estrangement forced him to travel while he turned a blind eye to his betrayal that he was famous for in art, so he searched for a new home that would bring him back to What was written in a different way, through which he investigates the dream of new joys; As he was subjected to an incident of criticism from someone after he did everything in his power to embody a work of art that was met with disapproval from this person, so he decided to isolate him and paved the way for a new memory during which he presented his experiences after lean years, so his new works became a voice and echo for everyone, even in his writings that he formed In the light of his art, which gave him an opportunity, to go away from what people are familiar with, and here he deduces from isolation its imposed strength on the creator, and its optional dimension as well, and he concludes that it gives those who seek refuge in it an opportunity to be alone with himself, and withdraw himself from a negative environment to a broad horizon in which it extends shadows, so the soul regains its individuality again.
lamp light
He philosophizes isolation and its motives in the life of writers, the writer Jamal Al-Shehhi. He puts it in a circle that suddenly stops the fuel of creativity for a writer, given that it has disrupted the culture of knowledge, which is the lamp that guides its overwhelming light to the thoughts, and allows writing to be circulated on a wider scale, in addition to that there are those who choose isolation after they have issued one or two works and then find that There is nothing new for him, and that what he presented does not fatten or satisfy hunger, so he preferred to abandon this difficult world in which there is no presence for the one who is unable to astonish, and for himself. Al-Shehhi loves isolation of another kind; It consists in seclusion by himself, away from all lights, until he finds a new idea, which gives him hope to provide joy to others, but he deplores those moody writers who do not take literature seriously, and finds them more inclined to isolate than others, so their isolation is without known reasons. And he believes that isolation may be a real motive for some writers to trace a new aesthetic effect, provided that this isolation does not last long, so that the cognitive dimensions are formed in their natural places without elaborating on the idea of prolonged isolation.
word memory
Writer Abdullah Al-Kaabi believes that the truly creative person is the maker of isolation when he decides to be free from writing, and from the details that exhaust him in evoking the idea and weaving it in a way, and that when feelings of distress are generated in him from his constant work in his surroundings, he yearns for freedom of another kind, so he gets preoccupied with certain things. Contrary to what he used to do in his literary life inhabited by letters and illusions, this type of writers who are taken by other scenes in life, return with creativity that may make them in a larger circle than they imagined, because they courageously decided to renew the water of amazement with isolation, but the real heartbreak is represented by those who retire Without going back, their absence would be a rupture that separates them from their talents that dragged them from the beginning to writing. Al-Kaabi lived periods of isolation for about a whole year, but he returns after that with deeds that deserve to cut the rope of his silence, for he praises isolation and disparages its conditions at the same time, and he feels that it may be like cutting his mercy. with the world of knowledge,
It imprisons the Mu’tazila in overwhelming stubbornness and disobedience to practice the supreme art in existence, as it forces whoever chooses it voluntarily to change all the rituals of life, and whoever is able to benefit from it and get to know himself during its periods has the ability to tweet again, so it is permissible for him to intercede with his fans among readers, intellectuals and his peers. in the creative arena. a warrior rest
As for the international poet Ismail Al-Balushi, he considers the poet’s isolation sufficient for him to chase the poem again, as it may drag him to a close relief, if it is a warrior’s rest to return after it with poetic words unlike others, or a desire to be something else in writing, and to find something lost in it. notebooks of days; Because when the poet is isolated from his cultural surroundings, he is in harmony with another nature that rediscovers himself. And he talks about the poet’s solitude precisely because he believes that only poets do not descend into complete solitude when they rely on it. The instinct of poetry does not dry up for them because it multiplies with the passage of time, and it may happen that the poet gets involved in isolation that puts him in a neglected state that does not qualify him to come up with something new. In college, his library, papers, pens, and shades of his poetry.
