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About "ይወስዳል መንገድ ያመጣል መንገድ"
I tried to write a story that will have a certain iconic status, that can bring the recent past in a relatively complete/compact perspective.
But to compress 40 or 50 years of history in a novella is hard. That is unattainable ambition. Yet, I have to try it.
Because of this, this story was done separate from the other stories. It, however, establishes an inside labyrinth. This is attained by sort of splitting time and space.
There are seven roads which in real life behave as a continuum. First, they were ‘chopped’ in chapters… and then connected in events, memories, characters and most importantly, the age of the protagonist: Alemu.
On a single ‘imaginary space’ happen things that he did while he was born, a toddler, a teen etc…
These actions and memory pieces emerge here and there giving the novella a ‘curved continuity’ and also signalling or registering ruptures. Within the schema of the roads, there is time as 'Histin.'
In other words, the story vis a vis the other stories in the anthology, sort of establishes an inside labyrinth. This is attained by using space as an organising factor.
The reader, therefore, gets the complete message of the story not while reading it but after finishing it and also after some repose.
2012
Adam Reta
@AdamuReta
@isrik
About "ይወስዳል መንገድ ያመጣል መንገድ"
I tried to write a story that will have a certain iconic status, that can bring the recent past in a relatively complete/compact perspective.
But to compress 40 or 50 years of history in a novella is hard. That is unattainable ambition. Yet, I have to try it.
Because of this, this story was done separate from the other stories. It, however, establishes an inside labyrinth. This is attained by sort of splitting time and space.
There are seven roads which in real life behave as a continuum. First, they were ‘chopped’ in chapters… and then connected in events, memories, characters and most importantly, the age of the protagonist: Alemu.
On a single ‘imaginary space’ happen things that he did while he was born, a toddler, a teen etc…
These actions and memory pieces emerge here and there giving the novella a ‘curved continuity’ and also signalling or registering ruptures. Within the schema of the roads, there is time as 'Histin.'
In other words, the story vis a vis the other stories in the anthology, sort of establishes an inside labyrinth. This is attained by using space as an organising factor.
The reader, therefore, gets the complete message of the story not while reading it but after finishing it and also after some repose.
2012
Adam Reta
@AdamuReta
@isrik