Al-Jarrāh: La maschera di Telemaco e una nuova lettura dei miti mediterranei

Critical introduction to a selected choice of Nuri al-Jarrah's poems where he narrates in verse the pain for the tragedy experienced by his people at the time of the explosion of the riots in Syria. The author's voice expresses the pain of the exiles unable to sustain the battle of those who remained at home. In his verses, he describes the rapid decomposition of the physical and moral country. The poet's expressive power manages to transcend present time to anchor itself to the tradition of classical Mediterranean literature. His cultural references are manifold and range from the Bible to modern and contemporary Arabic and Western literature. Particularly strong is the description of the drama of survivors of shipwrecks and migrants forced by the war to leave their homeland for distant and foreign places. The text maintains a high and evocative timbre with a strong lyricism that does not end in despair but looks at the universal values of Humanity.