Cairo: Al-Khaleej
Many writers are preoccupied with what will happen tomorrow in the world, and among them is the Italian writer Stefano Bini, who published several novels, including his novel “Earth”, which was translated into a large number of languages immediately after its release, and its events take place in the year 2156, when the earth was filled with nuclear wars, whose ferocity increased due to Energy crisis, the planet has become exhausted on the brink of a new ice age, over which several systems are competing for dominance.
The only hope for tormented humanity is to announce a new inhabitable planet, discovered by an alien explorer who disappeared in mysterious circumstances. The human race, and the three ships that traveled will win one of them and reach the goal.
Meanwhile, on ancient Earth, a mysterious emanation of energy is discovered in a place of antiquity thousands of years old, space travel turns into a journey into the past, and where masters of war and computer technology go hand in hand with witches and hieroglyphs of ten thousand years old intermarry. It has a smile with ably suspense and a smooth style.
As for Benny’s novel “Powell”, it has a subtitle which is “Quiet Night for the Regime”. They are completely under his control, and he shapes not only these minds, but also people’s memory, according to his own mood.
In addition to the novel, Benny wrote the short story, and on top of it are the collections of short stories entitled “The Last Tear” and translated into Arabic by Dr. Hussein Mahmoud. It is a collection of pictures of a world in the future, but it has extraordinary credibility, that is, it is a believable fictional world, so we find in it For example, a story about a death sentence that carries the events of its execution live via unified television channels, followed by the family members of the convict, with their comments that are more interested in the fame that the convict reaps by appearing on television than in his fate.
The collection of 27 stories, in a style that combines science fiction and satire, explores multi-spectral characters and violently reveals how horrible the future will be if the world clings to the falsity of the current reality. You get to know your personality and your involvement in corruption conspiracies.
The writer is inspired by the Italian reality, and deals in particular with the phenomena of the new right and the media obsession that corrupts the true cultural sense. In his narrative style, he does not hesitate to present us with a shocking laugh or a sarcastic tear, a last tear that believes in the ability of the pen and imagination to resist and change.
Benny is distinguished as a social analyst of the first degree, and dictatorship appears in his works as a first subject that he loves to deal with, and for him dictatorship is the absolute authority, even if this authority is television or the media of all kinds, and before this it should be noted that Benny belongs to the sect of writers who do not rest To the prevailing and traditional, but they tend to the new and innovative, and they have enough courage to face the emerging phenomena in society, especially the unexpected phenomena, and he has the ability to rise above reality and look at it from a higher, more neutral and broader horizon.
The writer always chooses his heroes from young people, under twenty, or even children, and despite this, his novels are full of dramatic situations that you might not expect, from heroes under twenty, and his other favorite theme is politics, and he is not interested in politics for its own sake, but rather as a means through which he analyzes the social arena in humanity.
Bini belongs to the Italian left, but he does not belong to a particular party, but rather to the most capable sects of the left who are able to practice self-criticism and ridicule themselves before they mock their opponents, and who care about issues and problems more than their interest in rigid structures and books that amount to sanctification.
Stefano Benni was born in 1947. His first book, “The Sports Café” was published in 1976. Since then, his works range from novels, stories, poetry, theater and cinema. He is a prolific writer.
